Source: Noto CJK

U+3231 Parenthesized Ideograph Stock

U+3231 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 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 commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It is also used in the script Han.

The glyph is a compatibility composition of the glyphs Left Parenthesis, CJK Unified Ideograph-682A, Right Parenthesis. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+3231 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

A kabushiki gaisha (Japanese: 株式会社, pronounced [kabɯɕi̥ki ɡaꜜiɕa]; lit. 'share company') or kabushiki kaisha, commonly abbreviated K.K. or KK, is a type of company (会社, kaisha) defined under the Companies Act of Japan. The term is often translated as "stock company", "joint-stock company" or "stock corporation". The term kabushiki gaisha in Japan refers to any joint-stock company regardless of country of origin or incorporation; however, outside Japan the term refers specifically to joint-stock companies incorporated in Japan.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	12849
UTF-8	E3 88 B1
UTF-16	32 31
UTF-32	00 00 32 31
URL-Quoted	%E3%88%B1
HTML hex reference	㈱
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	ãˆ±
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)	C8 D1
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes)	87 8A
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)	AD EA
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)	AD EA
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)	A9 5A
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	A9 5A
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)	1B 24 28 51 2D 6A 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)	1B 24 28 4F 2D 6A 1B 28 42
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)	87 8A
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)	87 8A
Adobe Glyph List	ideographicstockparen

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Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	PARENTHESIZED IDEOGRAPH STOCK
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
General Category (gc)	Other Symbol
Script (sc)	Common
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	compatibility
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Left Parenthesis CJK Unified Ideograph-682A Right Parenthesis
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Parenthesized Ideograph Stock
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Parenthesized Ideograph Stock
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Parenthesized Ideograph Stock
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Parenthesized Ideograph Stock
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Parenthesized Ideograph Stock
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Parenthesized Ideograph Stock
Case Folding (cf)	Parenthesized Ideograph Stock
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✔
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Parenthesized Ideograph Stock
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✘
ID Start (IDS)	✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Left Parenthesis CJK Unified Ideograph-682A Right Parenthesis
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Left Parenthesis CJK Unified Ideograph-682A Right Parenthesis
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Other
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Other
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✘
XID Start (XIDS)	✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✔
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✔
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Parenthesized Ideograph Stock
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Parenthesized Ideograph Stock
Script Extension (scx)	Han
Vertical Orientation (vo)	U