U+329B "㊛" Circled Ideograph Female Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㊛
U+329B "㊛" Circled Ideograph Female is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the word "female" (女, onna or josei in Japanese, nǚ in Chinese) enclosed within a circular border, often used in East Asian contexts as a symbol to denote women, female restrooms, or feminine-related services. It is part of the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block within Unicode, specifically designed for compatibility with legacy character sets and used in signage, labels, or decorative text where a compact visual marker for gender is needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+329B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Ideograph Female |
| Block | Enclosed CJK Letters and Months |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Circle |
| Decomposition Mapping | "女" U+5973 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㊛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㊛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8A 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x329B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000329B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u329b |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "女" U+5973 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "女" U+5973 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Han |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |