What ㊄ means
It marks item five or a fifth label.
The wider enclosed-symbol repertoire draws on older Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese character standards. Unicode 18.0.0 describes its small ordered sets as numbered-list bullets, a role rich-text styles have largely taken over.
A compact, formal marker for structured text.
Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Can ㊄ look different in another font?
Yes. Unicode 18.0.0's chart drawing is not a required font shape, so fonts can vary the circle and proportions of 五.
Collections with ㊄
2How to type or find ㊄
- Also called
- 丸五
- Search it as
- circled five · five in a circle · list marker · maru-go
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
㊄CSS
\3284How to type ㊄
In a Unicode character picker, search “circled ideograph five”; with hex input, enter 3284. Typing 五 alone gives a different character.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㊄
HTML hex
㊄
CSS content
content: "\3284";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8A%84
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

