U+32F1 "㋱" Circled Katakana Me Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+32F1 "㋱" Circled Katakana Me is a typographic symbol that represents the Japanese katakana character "メ" enclosed within a circle, serving as a specific visual variant used primarily in Japanese text for emphasis, labeling, or aesthetic purposes. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility block of Unicode, which was designed to encode legacy characters originally present in East Asian character sets for compatibility across different systems and fonts. While it retains the phonetic value of "me" and can be used in contexts like Japanese signage or occasionally in manga and graphic design, it is less commonly encountered in modern digital text than its standard counterpart, and is rendered in a fixed circle that cannot be reliably resized for scaling without potential loss of clarity.

General Properties

Code Point U+32F1
Version Added 1.1
Name Circled Katakana Me
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 "メ" U+30E1 Katakana Letter Me

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㋱
HTML Hex Encoding ㋱
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x8B 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0x32F1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000032F1
C/C++/Java Escape \u32f1

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 "メ" U+30E1 Katakana Letter Me
NFKC Simple Casefold "メ" U+30E1 Katakana Letter Me
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