U+32B5 "㊵" Circled Number Forty Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㊵
U+32B5 "㊵" Circled Number Forty is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographic symbol representing the number 40 enclosed within a circle, and it belongs to the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block. This character is commonly used in East Asian contexts, such as on menus, product labels, or lists, to indicate the number forty in a visually compact and culturally recognizable format, particularly in Japanese and Chinese systems where such circled numbers serve as standard ordinal markers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32B5 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Circled Number Forty |
| Block | Enclosed CJK Letters and Months |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Circle |
| Decomposition Mapping | "4" U+0034 Digit Four "0" U+0030 Digit Zero |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㊵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㊵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8A 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32B5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032B5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32b5 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 40 |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "4" U+0034 Digit Four "0" U+0030 Digit Zero |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "4" U+0034 Digit Four "0" U+0030 Digit Zero |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |