What ㈦ means
It marks seven inside parentheses in one character-width of CJK text.
This parenthesized seven belongs to the ㈠–㈩ series of enclosed numerals, used as compact markers alongside CJK writing.
Japan's JIS X 0208 character-set standard included this form in its 1990 repertoire; Unicode later retained the family for compatibility with existing encodings.
Formal and typographic; it reads as a numbered marker in a document, list, or table.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does ㈦ become (七)?
Compatibility normalization can expand it into the ordinary characters (七). The reading stays seven, but the enclosed one-character form is lost.
How to type or find ㈦
- Search it as
- ㈦ · parenthesized seven · seven in parentheses · CJK parenthesized number · JIS enclosed number
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㈦\3226Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

