What ㊊ means
It labels Monday. In Japanese, 月 can mean moon, month, or Monday. The circle makes ㊊ a one-cell weekday label; , , , , , and mark the other days. A date or nearby words settle the reading of unframed 月.
A Japanese dictionary records 月曜 in 1111 for a day assigned to the moon and in 1881–84 for ordinary Monday. Those dates trace the Japanese weekday name, not the history of the circled mark itself.
Compact schedule notation, with no expressive tone built into the mark.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
4㈪
Parenthesized ideograph Moon
㈪ is the parenthesized Monday form: it puts the same 月 weekday mark in round brackets instead of a circle.
CJK Unified Ideograph-6708
The plain kanji inside ㊊ (moon, month); compatibility normalization turns ㊊ into 月.
Circled ideograph Fire
The next day in the circled weekday set: Tuesday.
Circled ideograph Sun
The day before in the circled weekday set: Sunday.
Combination ideas
4Monday to Friday.
Monday blues.
Monday morning, coffee first.
The five weekdays.
Questions 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
- ㊊ Monday · circled Monday · Japanese weekday mark · 月曜 · 月曜日 · 丸付き曜日
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
㊊CSS
\328AHow do I type ㊊?
Japanese input method (IME) suggestions vary by setup; a Unicode character picker is a fallback.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㊊
HTML hex
㊊
CSS content
content: "\328A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8A%8A
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On screen
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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.