U+3197 IDEOGRAPHIC ANNOTATION MIDDLE MARK

The Unicode character U+3197, officially named IDEOGRAPHIC ANNOTATION MIDDLE MARK, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Kanbun block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as KAERITEN TYUU.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is Unknown and has wide in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.