What ㈯ means
It marks Saturday in Japanese date shorthand. It is one character for (土), the parenthesized short form of 土曜日 (Saturday). Unicode’s NFKC compatibility mapping can expand ㈯ to (土), keeping the weekday cue but changing the character string.
The seven-day scheme reached Japan from Tang-period China. Japanese calendar accounts describe weekday labels in calendrical and divination work by the Heian period; weekday entries also appear continuously in Fujiwara no Michinaga’s diary across 998–1021.
Calendar and weekly-rest reforms in the Meiji period helped bring weekday labels into everyday scheduling.
Why does ㈯ look this way?
It compresses a weekday label into one character. Unicode retains parenthesized CJK forms for compatibility with East Asian character sets, letting compact notation travel as a single character.
㈯ belongs to the parenthesized weekday series –, alongside a parallel circled series, –. A Unicode working document dated August 2, 2007, maps ㈯ into ARIB’s character set for Japanese television broadcasts.
How do I type ㈯ in Word?
In Word, type 322F and press AltX. As of 2026, Word supports this Unicode-hex shortcut. If hexadecimal characters touch the code, select only 322F before pressing the shortcut.
Neutral shorthand in Japanese dates and schedules; it reads like a calendar label in a message.
If the recipient may not know Japanese date shorthand, spell out Saturday.
Don't confuse it with
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（土） The same notation written with fullwidth parentheses: three characters instead of the single character ㈯.
Questions people ask
1Why did ㈯ turn into (土)?
A text-normalization step expanded it. Unicode’s NFKC compatibility mapping changes ㈯ to (土), keeping the weekday notation but replacing the single-character string.
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How to type or find ㈯
- Search it as
- sat · saturday · 土 · 土曜 · 土曜日 · doyou · doyoubi · (土)
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㈯\322FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.