U+322D "" Parenthesized Ideograph Wood Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+322D "" Parenthesized Ideograph Wood is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that consists of the character for "wood" (木) enclosed within parentheses, and it originates from the historical practice of encoding vertical Japanese text or aligning with specific East Asian typesetting conventions. This character is part of a set of parenthesized ideographs used in legacy computing systems to represent abbreviated terms, such as days of the week or other categorized references, with "wood" often symbolizing Tuesday in Japanese. Its primary purpose today is to ensure compatibility with older text formats, and it is not commonly used in modern standard writing but remains defined for interoperability in digital environments.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
㈭
HTML Hex Encoding
㈭
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE3 0x88 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding
0x322D
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000322D
C/C++/Java Escape
\u322d