U+3247 "㉇" Circled Ideograph Koto Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+3247 "㉇" Circled Ideograph Koto is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) symbol representing the Japanese word "koto," which can mean "thing," "matter," or "fact," and is also the name of a traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument. This character is formed by the ideograph for "koto" (often written as 事 or 琴) enclosed within a circular boundary, a stylistic convention used in East Asian typography for emphasis or as a decorative emblem. It belongs to the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block of Unicode, specifically designed for compatibility with legacy character sets and standards used in Japanese industrial and telecommunications contexts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+3247
Name
Circled Ideograph Koto
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
㉇
HTML Hex Encoding
㉇
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE3 0x89 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding
0x3247
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00003247
C/C++/Java Escape
\u3247
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Han