U+323C "" Parenthesized Ideograph Supervise Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+323C "" Parenthesized Ideograph Supervise is a CJK Compatibility Ideograph enclosed in parentheses, representing the Chinese character for "supervise" or "oversee" (督, dū). It belongs to a set of parenthesized ideographs that were originally used in East Asian text processing systems to format items such as legal documents or lists, where parentheses around a character indicate a specific label or category. This particular character is part of the Unicode block CJK Compatibility Ideographs, which includes symbols that were encoded for compatibility with earlier character sets like CNS 11643. In modern usage, it is rarely used in everyday text but may appear in historical or specialized contexts where its specific symbolic meaning is required.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
㈼
HTML Hex Encoding
㈼
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE3 0x88 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding
0x323C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000323C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u323c