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Glyph for U+32E1
Source: Noto CJK

U+32E1 Circled Katakana Tu

U+32E1 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+3200 to U+32FF Enclosed CJK Letters and Months in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is mainly used in the Katakana script.

The glyph is a Circle composition of the glyph Glyph for U+30C4 Katakana Letter Tu. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+32E1 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Katakana for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Tsu (hiragana: つ, katakana: ツ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both are phonemically /tɯ/, reflected in the Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization tu, although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is [t͡sɯᵝ] , reflected in the Hepburn romanization tsu.

The small kana っ/ッ, known as sokuon, are identical but somewhat smaller. They are mainly used to indicate consonant gemination and commonly used at the end of lines of dialogue in fictional works as a symbol for a glottal stop.

The dakuten forms づ, ヅ, pronounced the same as the dakuten forms of the su kana in most dialects (see yotsugana), are uncommon. They are primarily used for indicating a voiced consonant in the middle of a compound word (see rendaku), and they can never begin a word.

In the Ainu language, it can be written with a handakuten (which can be entered into a computer as either one character (ツ゚) or two combined characters (ツ゜) to represent the sound [tu͍], which is interchangeable with the katakana ト゚.

The katakana form has become popular as an emoticon in the Western world due to its resemblance to a smiling face and as part of a "shrug" emoticon, known alternatively as Shruggie, rendered as:  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .

  • ヅァ, ヅェ and ヅォ are used in gairaigos; these pronunciations are not same as ズァ (zwa), ズェ (zwe) and ズォ (zwo).

Representations

System Representation
13025
UTF-8 E3 8B A1
UTF-16 32 E1
UTF-32 00 00 32 E1
URL-Quoted %E3%8B%A1
HTML hex reference ㋡
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ã‹¡

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CIRCLED KATAKANA TU
Unicode 1 Name
Block Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
General Category Other Symbol
Script Katakana
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type Circle
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+30C4 Katakana Letter Tu
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+32E1 Circled Katakana Tu
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+32E1 Circled Katakana Tu
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+32E1 Circled Katakana Tu
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+32E1 Circled Katakana Tu
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+32E1 Circled Katakana Tu
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+32E1 Circled Katakana Tu
Case Folding Glyph for U+32E1 Circled Katakana Tu
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+32E1 Circled Katakana Tu
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+30C4 Katakana Letter Tu
NFKC Quick Check No
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+30C4 Katakana Letter Tu
NFKD Quick Check No
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Katakana
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+32E1 Circled Katakana Tu
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Wide
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Ideographic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+32E1 Circled Katakana Tu
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U