What ㊑ means
In Japanese business labels, it marks an incorporated company. The center is 株, the Japanese character for stock or shares; enclosed, it can abbreviate 株式会社, the Japanese joint-stock company form.
The plain character 株 is recorded for a plant’s root or stump in 1486, a right tied to an occupation in 1681, and company stock in 1871. These dates trace 株, not when the circled shorthand first appeared.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-682A
This is the Japanese character at the center of ㊑; in the enclosed mark, it carries the stock or shares sense used in company shorthand.
Circled ideograph Have
This companion enclosed character maps to 有 and is glossed as limited, another compact company-form mark.
Circled ideograph Society
It encloses 社, the Japanese character for company, and is glossed as company in the same group of business marks.
Combination ideas
3Joint-stock company (kabushiki kaisha).
Stocks going up.
Stocks going down.
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
- ㊑ meaning · ㊑ Japanese company abbreviation · 株 · kabu · kabushiki · 株式会社 · ㈱ · U+3291
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
㊑CSS
\3291Unicode input
In software with hexadecimal Unicode input, enter 3291 and convert. Compatibility normalization may reduce ㊑ to 株.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㊑
HTML hex
㊑
CSS content
content: "\3291";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8A%91
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.