U+32A9 "㊩" Circled Ideograph Medicine Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㊩
U+32A9 "㊩" Circled Ideograph Medicine is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) symbol enclosed in a circle, specifically representing the character for "medicine" or "medical treatment" (derived from the ideograph 薬 or 藥). It belongs to the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, where such circled forms are often used in East Asian typography as compact labels, decorative elements, or shorthand, frequently appearing in contexts like signage, menu items, or instructional design to denote pharmaceutical or health related concepts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32A9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Ideograph Medicine |
| 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 | "医" U+533B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㊩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㊩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8A 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32A9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032A9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32a9 |
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 | "医" U+533B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "医" U+533B 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 |