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U+3238 · PARENTHESIZED IDEOGRAPH LABOR

Parenthesized Ideograph Labor

  • CodepointU+3238
  • NamePARENTHESIZED IDEOGRAPH LABOR
  • Decimal12856
  • BlockEnclosed CJK Letters and Months (U+3200–U+32FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+3238 (㈸) is PARENTHESIZED IDEOGRAPH LABOR, a symbol in the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a compatibility variant of U+0028 ( + U+52B4 労 + U+0029 ) (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0028 ( + U+52B4 労 + U+0029 ). Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type ㈸

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E3 88 B83 bytes
UTF-1632381 code unit
UTF-32000032384 bytes
HTML decimal&#12856;
HTML hex&#x3238;
CSS\3238in content: "…"
JavaScript\u3238
JSON\u3238
Python\u3238
Python\N{PARENTHESIZED IDEOGRAPH LABOR}by name
Java / C#\u3238
C / C++\u3238universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3238}
Go\u3238
Ruby\u3238
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(12856)
URL-encoded%E3%88%B8percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0028 ( + U+52B4 労 + U+0029 )
NFKDU+0028 ( + U+52B4 労 + U+0029 )
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Nearby in Enclosed CJK Letters and Months

All in block →
U+3232㈲Parenthesized Ideograph Have U+3233㈳Parenthesized Ideograph Society U+3234㈴Parenthesized Ideograph Name U+3235㈵Parenthesized Ideograph Special U+3236㈶Parenthesized Ideograph Financial U+3237㈷Parenthesized Ideograph Congratulation U+3239㈹Parenthesized Ideograph Represent U+323A㈺Parenthesized Ideograph Call U+323B㈻Parenthesized Ideograph Study U+323C㈼Parenthesized Ideograph Supervise U+323D㈽Parenthesized Ideograph Enterprise U+323E㈾Parenthesized Ideograph Resource