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U+3299 · CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH SECRET

Circled Ideograph Secret

  • CodepointU+3299
  • NameCIRCLED IDEOGRAPH SECRET
  • Emoji nameJapanese “secret” button
  • Decimal12953
  • 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+3299 (㊙) is CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH SECRET, 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).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “Japanese “secret” button”, in the Symbols group, subgroup alphanum. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+3299 U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

It is an encircled form of U+79D8 秘 (compatibility decomposition <circle>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+79D8 秘. 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 8A 993 bytes
UTF-1632991 code unit
UTF-32000032994 bytes
HTML decimal&#12953;
HTML hex&#x3299;
CSS\3299in content: "…"
JavaScript\u3299
JSON\u3299
Python\u3299
Python\N{CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH SECRET}by name
Java / C#\u3299
C / C++\u3299universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3299}
Go\u3299
Ruby\u3299
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(12953)
URL-encoded%E3%8A%99percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+79D8 秘
NFKDU+79D8 秘
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Nearby in Enclosed CJK Letters and Months

All in block →
U+3293㊓Circled Ideograph Society U+3294㊔Circled Ideograph Name U+3295㊕Circled Ideograph Special U+3296㊖Circled Ideograph Financial U+3297㊗Circled Ideograph Congratulation U+3298㊘Circled Ideograph Labor U+329A㊚Circled Ideograph Male U+329B㊛Circled Ideograph Female U+329C㊜Circled Ideograph Suitable U+329D㊝Circled Ideograph Excellent U+329E㊞Circled Ideograph Print U+329F㊟Circled Ideograph Attention