What ㊒ means
It marks “limited” in Japanese business text. The circle encloses 有, the character for “have” or “exist”; here it has a specialized company reading, not the everyday phrase “I have.”
Enclosed CJK signs preserve forms from older East Asian character sets; many had earlier served as compact list markers.
Formal, administrative Japanese typography, rather than a casual chat reaction.
Do not treat ㊒ and as interchangeable; the circle and parentheses mark distinct forms.
Drift: The mark points to yūgen gaisha (有限会社), an older Japanese limited-company form. After Japan’s Companies Act took effect in 2006, no new yūgen gaisha could be established; existing firms continued as special limited companies.
Don't confuse it with
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3Questions people ask
1Why does ㊒ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ㊒
- Search it as
- maruyu · maru-yu · 丸有 · 有限会社 · limited company symbol · ㈲
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㊒\3292Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.