What ㈴ means
㈴ stands for 合名会社, Japan’s unlimited-partnership company form. Its enclosed character 名 means “name,” but here it abbreviates a business type, not a field for a person’s name. Japanese company names and administrative lists use it as compact legal shorthand.
This single-character encoding represents a Japanese paperwork convention of enclosing an abbreviated character. If ㈴ is missing from a font, write （名） or spell out 合名会社.
Formal Japanese corporate and administrative shorthand for a legal form.
Don’t read 名 as a personal-name field.
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Questions people ask
1Why does ㈴ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find ㈴
- Also called
- （名）
- Search it as
- ㈴ · 合名会社 · gomeigaisha · Japanese company abbreviation
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㈴\3234Codes and encoding1 code points
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