U+32B6 "㊶" Circled Number Forty One Unicode Character

U+32B6 "㊶" Circled Number Forty One is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph that represents the number 41 enclosed within a circle, belonging to the "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" block. It is used primarily in East Asian contexts, such as in ordered lists, calendar systems, or product labeling, where a visually compact and traditional numeric representation is preferred over standard digits. The character is distinct from simple parenthesized or period-separated numbers, as its circular enclosure provides a specific typographic style often seen in print and digital media for sequencing or notation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+32B6
Version Added	3.2
Name	Circled Number Forty One
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 "1" U+0031 Digit One

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㊶
HTML Hex Encoding	㊶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x8A 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x32B6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000032B6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u32b6

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	41
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"4" U+0034 Digit Four "1" U+0031 Digit One
NFKC Simple Casefold	"4" U+0034 Digit Four "1" U+0031 Digit One
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