U+32B0 "㊰" Circled Ideograph Night Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㊰
U+32B0 "㊰" Circled Ideograph Night is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) symbol consisting of the character for "night" enclosed within a circle, belonging to the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block. It is commonly used in East Asian contexts, particularly in Japanese, as a compact way to denote night or evening, often appearing on signage, calendars, or in timetables to indicate nighttime hours or activities. Unlike its uncircled counterpart, which is frequently found in written language, the circled version serves a specific graphical purpose for visual clarity or symbolic grouping, reflecting a broader typographic tradition of enclosing characters for ease of recognition in schedules or charts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32B0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Ideograph Night |
| 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 | "夜" U+591C CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㊰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㊰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8A 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32B0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32b0 |
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 | "夜" U+591C CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "夜" U+591C 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 |