What ㊣ means
It says 正: correct, proper, genuine. 正 (zhèng in Mandarin, sei in Japanese, jeong in Korean) means upright or right, and appears in words such as 正確 “correct” and 正品 “genuine product”. The circle turns it into a stamp, the way a seal marks a document as checked.
Its most official life is in Taiwan. From 1951, products meeting the Chinese National Standards (CNS) and passing factory quality checks could carry ㊣ as the 正字標記, the CNS mark. The mark was redesigned in 1988, so today's label does not look exactly like this character.
Online, ㊣ often appears in Chinese-language shop listings and posts to signal 正品 or 正版, “the real thing” rather than a copy. Anyone can type it, so it is a seller's claim, not a certificate.
Official on old Taiwanese labels; a confident “legit” or “correct” stamp in listings and chats.
㊣ in a listing or chat does not prove a product is genuine or certified.
Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
3Worth knowing
- Because 正 has exactly five strokes, people across East Asia count votes on a board by writing it stroke by stroke: each finished 正 means five.
Questions people ask
2Is ㊣ the same as 正?
Same meaning, different character. ㊣ is a separate circled symbol, so a search for 正 will not find it.
Does ㊣ on a product guarantee it's genuine?
No. Anyone can type it. Only the official certification label on the product itself means it passed checks.
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How to type or find ㊣
- Also called
- circled 正 · CNS mark · 正字標記
- Search it as
- 正 in a circle · Taiwan quality mark · genuine symbol · correct ideograph
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㊣\32A3Codes and encoding1 code points
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