U+32FD "㋽" Circled Katakana We Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㋽
U+32FD "㋽" Circled Katakana We is a specific ideographic character that represents the Japanese katakana syllable "we" enclosed within a circular border, and it belongs to the "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" block of the Unicode standard. This character is rarely used in modern Japanese, as the syllable "we" (ヱ) is largely obsolete in contemporary writing, but it may appear in historical texts, proper nouns, or stylized signage for traditional or nostalgic effect. Its primary function in digital typography is to provide a visually distinct, compact symbol for specialized applications, such as in calendars, emoji-like decorations, or encoding historical linguistic forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32FD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Katakana We |
| 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 | "ヱ" U+30F1 Katakana Letter We |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㋽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㋽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8B 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32FD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032FD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32fd |
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 | "ヱ" U+30F1 Katakana Letter We |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ヱ" U+30F1 Katakana Letter We |
| 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 |