U+3247 "" Circled Ideograph Koto Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK 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.

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