U+32E9 "㋩" Circled Katakana Ha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㋩
U+32E9 "㋩" Circled Katakana Ha is a specific character in the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, representing the Japanese katakana syllable "ha" (ハ) enclosed within a circle. It is primarily used in East Asian typography and legacy encoding systems, such as Japanese telephone keypads or simplified menu displays, where it functions as an enclosed abbreviation or marker. This character is part of a larger set of circled katakana characters that provide visual emphasis or categorization in texts, though its usage has diminished with modern digital systems that rely on more flexible formatting options.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32E9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Katakana Ha |
| 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 | "ハ" U+30CF Katakana Letter Ha |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㋩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㋩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8B 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32E9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032E9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32e9 |
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 | "ハ" U+30CF Katakana Letter Ha |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ハ" U+30CF Katakana Letter Ha |
| 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 |