U+32EC Circled Katakana He
U+32EC was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Enclosed CJK Letters and Months in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is mainly used in the Katakana script.
The glyph is a circle version of the glyph Katakana Letter He. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. This katakana joins with other adjacent katakana to form a word. U+32EC offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
へ, in hiragana, or ヘ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which represents one mora. The [he] sound is the only sound that is written identically in hiragana and katakana and therefore confusable according to the Unicode Standard. In the Sakhalin dialect of the Ainu language, ヘ can be written as small ㇸ to represent a final [h] after an [e] sound (エㇸ [eh]).
It is usually pronounced [he] with the aspirate [h] before its vowel. It is also often used as a grammatical particle indicating direction, which makes only the vowel sound [e].
Though the two forms へ and ヘ are usually rendered with a small difference between them, in order to match better with the appearance of other hiragana or katakana characters, they can often be rendered identically. A reader is not expected to distinguish one from the other without contextual clues.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 13036 |
| UTF-8 | E3 8B AC |
| UTF-16 | 32 EC |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 32 EC |
| URL-Quoted | %E3%8B%AC |
| HTML hex reference | ㋬ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ㋬ |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | AC F3 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | AC F3 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 39 D4 34 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 51 2C 73 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 4F 2C 73 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 86 F1 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 86 F1 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| CIRCLED KATAKANA HE | |
| — | |
| Enclosed CJK Letters and Months | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Katakana | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| circle | |
| Katakana Letter He | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Circled Katakana He | |
| Circled Katakana He | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Circled Katakana He | |
| Circled Katakana He | |
| Circled Katakana He | |
| Circled Katakana He | |
| Circled Katakana He | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Circled Katakana He | |
| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Katakana Letter He | |
| No | |
| Katakana Letter He | |
| No | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Katakana | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Circled Katakana He | |
| None | |
| wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Circled Katakana He | |
| U |