U+32A7 "㊧" Circled Ideograph Left Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㊧
U+32A7 "㊧" Circled Ideograph Left is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) symbol representing the character for "left" enclosed within a circle, used primarily in East Asian signage, maps, and instructional materials to indicate a directional left turn or leftward orientation. It belongs to the "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" block, which provides circled and parenthesized ideographs for compatibility with legacy encodings. In Japanese contexts, it often appears in traffic or directional signs, while in Chinese it may denote a left side or direction in diagrams and labels.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32A7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Ideograph Left |
| 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 | "左" U+5DE6 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㊧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㊧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8A 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32A7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032A7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32a7 |
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 | "左" U+5DE6 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "左" U+5DE6 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 |