U+32E5 "㋥" Circled Katakana Ni Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㋥
U+32E5 "㋥" Circled Katakana Ni is a precomposed CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the Japanese katakana syllable "ni" enclosed within a circle, functioning as a single typographic unit. It belongs to the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block and is primarily used in East Asian text environments for brevity and visual clarity, often appearing in maps, charts, or formatted lists where a compact symbol is preferred over writing the character with separate punctuation. Despite being part of the Unicode standard for compatibility with legacy East Asian character sets, it is not commonly employed in modern digital communication beyond specialized contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32E5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Katakana Ni |
| Block | Enclosed CJK Letters and Months |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Circle |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ニ" U+30CB Katakana Letter Ni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㋥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㋥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8B 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32E5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032E5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32e5 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ニ" U+30CB Katakana Letter Ni |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ニ" U+30CB Katakana Letter Ni |
| Script | Katakana |
| Script Extensions | Katakana |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Katakana |
| Sentence Break | Other |