What ㉃ means
It encloses 至; it adds no new word. In Chinese and Japanese, 至 can mean reaching or arriving, and sometimes an utmost point.
Japanese character etymology explains the older form of 至 as an arrow reaching the ground. Unicode 1.0 documentation links enclosed forms to Japan's JIS 0208-1990 and Taiwan's CNS 11643 character standards, plus company character lists; Unicode kept them for compatibility.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
1(至) Three ordinary characters: parentheses around 至. ㉃ is one character.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Does ㉃ normalize to (至)?
Yes. Unicode 17.0's character chart gives (至) as its compatibility form. Compatibility normalization, a text conversion for presentation variants, can replace ㉃ with ordinary parentheses around 至.
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How to type or find ㉃
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- ㉃ meaning · 至 parentheses · reach ideograph · Chinese 至 · ㉃ normalization
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㉃\3243Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.