U+3299 Circled Ideograph Secret

U+3299 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+3200 to U+32FF Enclosed CJK Letters and Months in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It is also used in the script Han.

The glyph is a circle version of the glyph CJK Unified Ideograph-79D8. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+3299 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The CLDR project calls this character “Japanese “secret” button” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: “secret”, ideograph, Japanese, 秘.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: ㊙️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.