U+32B8 "㊸" Circled Number Forty Three Unicode Character

U+32B8 "㊸" Circled Number Forty Three is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographic symbol that represents the number forty three enclosed within a circle, part of the larger set of encircled numbers used primarily in East Asian typography for lists, calendars, or notation systems where a compact, visually distinctive numeral is needed. This character falls within the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block and is commonly employed in legacy or specialized contexts, such as precomposed forms for telephone keypads, spreadsheet annotations, or traditional numbering systems, though it is less frequently encountered in modern digital text due to the availability of standard numeric digits and formatting options.

General Properties

Code Point	U+32B8
Version Added	3.2
Name	Circled Number Forty Three
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 "3" U+0033 Digit Three

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㊸
HTML Hex Encoding	㊸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x8A 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x32B8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000032B8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u32b8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	43
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"4" U+0034 Digit Four "3" U+0033 Digit Three
NFKC Simple Casefold	"4" U+0034 Digit Four "3" U+0033 Digit Three
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