What ㊔ means
㊔ is the circled ideograph name. Unicode classifies it as an “other symbol” — Unicode's shelf for signs that are neither maths, money nor punctuation and files it in the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.
Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.
How it is encoded
㊔ is a single code point, U+3294. In HTML that is ㊔, and in CSS \3294.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions 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.
How to type ㊔
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 3294, then Alt+X to get ㊔.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “circled ideograph name”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 3294, then Enter or Space.
HTML
㊔CSS
\3294Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㊔
HTML hex
㊔
CSS content
content: "\3294";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8A%94
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.