U+32BE "㊾" Circled Number Forty Nine Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+32BE "㊾" Circled Number Forty Nine is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the number 49 enclosed within a circle, and it belongs to the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block. This character is primarily used in East Asian contexts, such as in lists, calendars, or indexing systems, to indicate the ordinal or numeric value forty nine in a compact, visually distinct format. It was encoded in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993, and while it may appear in some East Asian fonts or documents, it is not a standard numeral in modern digital environments and is often replaced by the common "49" digit combination.

General Properties

Code Point U+32BE
Version Added 3.2
Name Circled Number Forty Nine
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
"9" U+0039 Digit Nine

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㊾
HTML Hex Encoding ㊾
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x8A 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x32BE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000032BE
C/C++/Java Escape \u32be

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type Numeric
Numeric Value 49
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "4" U+0034 Digit Four
"9" U+0039 Digit Nine
NFKC Simple Casefold "4" U+0034 Digit Four
"9" U+0039 Digit Nine
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