U+32EC "㋬" Circled Katakana He Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㋬
U+32EC "㋬" Circled Katakana He is a visual glyph that combines the Japanese katakana syllable "He" (ヘ) enclosed within a circle, forming part of the CJK Compatibility block in the Unicode standard. It was designed primarily for compatibility with legacy East Asian character encodings, where such circled symbols were used in various contexts such as early digital game interfaces, educational materials, or list markers to denote a specific option or point. In modern use, this character is rarely employed in everyday text, as its function has largely been replaced by standard punctuation, emoji, or custom formatting, but it remains available for historical or specialized applications where that specific visual representation is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32EC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Katakana He |
| 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 | "ヘ" U+30D8 Katakana Letter He |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㋬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㋬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8B 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32EC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32ec |
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 | "ヘ" U+30D8 Katakana Letter He |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ヘ" U+30D8 Katakana Letter He |
| 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 |