U+32BB "㊻" Circled Number Forty Six Unicode Character

U+32BB "㊻" Circled Number Forty Six is part of the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, specifically designed for use in East Asian typography to represent the number forty six within a circular enclosure. It is composed of the CJK ideographic characters for "forty" (四十, read as yonjū or sìshí) and "six" (六, read as roku or liù), combined into a single glyph within a circle for clear, compact labeling. This character is commonly employed in ordered lists, schedules, maps, or other contexts where sequential numbering is needed, particularly in Japanese and Chinese text environments where such enclosed numerals are a standard typographic convention.

General Properties

Code Point	U+32BB
Version Added	3.2
Name	Circled Number Forty Six
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 "6" U+0036 Digit Six

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㊻
HTML Hex Encoding	㊻
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x8A 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x32BB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000032BB
C/C++/Java Escape	\u32bb

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	46
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"4" U+0034 Digit Four "6" U+0036 Digit Six
NFKC Simple Casefold	"4" U+0034 Digit Four "6" U+0036 Digit Six
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