U+32AA "㊪" Circled Ideograph Religion Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㊪
U+32AA "㊪" Circled Ideograph Religion is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that depicts the character for "religion" (often the character "宗", meaning "ancestor," "sect," or "religious sect") enclosed within a circular border. It was encoded as part of the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, primarily intended for use in East Asian typographical contexts where a circled form of the character was needed for lists, maps, or signage to denote a place of worship or a religious category. This character is not typically used in standard modern writing but serves as a legacy representation for compatibility with older text processing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32AA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Ideograph Religion |
| 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 | "宗" U+5B97 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㊪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㊪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8A 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32AA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32aa |
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 | "宗" U+5B97 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "宗" U+5B97 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 |