Source: Noto Emoji

U+3299 Circled Ideograph Secret

U+3299 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 circle version of the glyph CJK Unified Ideograph-79D8. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+3299 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The CLDR project calls this character “Japanese “secret” button” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: button, ideograph, Japanese, secret.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: ㊙️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.

Representations

System	Representation (click value to copy)
Nº	12953
UTF-8	E3 8A 99
UTF-16	32 99
UTF-32	00 00 32 99
URL-Quoted	%E3%8A%99
HTML hex reference	㊙
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	ãŠ™
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	81 39 CC 32
Adobe Glyph List	ideographicsecretcircle
RFC 5137	\u'3299'
Bash and Zsh inside `echo -e`	\u3299
C and C++	\u3299
C#	\u3299
CSS	\003299
Excel	=UNICHAR(12953)
Go	\u3299
JavaScript	\u3299
Modern JavaScript since ES6	\u{3299}
JSON	\u3299
Java	\u3299
Lua	\u{3299}
Matlab	char(12953)
Perl	"\x{3299}"
PHP	\u{3299}
PostgreSQL	U&'\3299'
PowerShell	`u{3299}
Python	\u3299
Ruby	\u{3299}
Rust	\u{3299}
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Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH SECRET
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)	circle
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	CJK Unified Ideograph-79D8
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Circled Ideograph Secret
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Circled Ideograph Secret
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Circled Ideograph Secret
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Circled Ideograph Secret
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Circled Ideograph Secret
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Circled Ideograph Secret
Case Folding (cf)	Circled Ideograph Secret
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)	Circled Ideograph Secret
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)	CJK Unified Ideograph-79D8
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	CJK Unified Ideograph-79D8
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)	Circled Ideograph Secret
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)	Circled Ideograph Secret
Script Extension (scx)	Han
Vertical Orientation (vo)	U