U+3012 "〒" Postal Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+3012 "〒" Postal Mark is a symbol primarily used in Japan to represent postal services, post offices, and mail related activities. Derived from the Japanese postal service's logo, which itself is a stylized version of the katakana character "テ" taken from the word "teishin" meaning communications, this mark appears on signage, maps, envelopes, and postcards to indicate a post office or a mailing address. It is also commonly used in data processing and digital contexts to denote postal codes or mail sorting instructions, making it a practical and culturally significant typographic element.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3012 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Postal Mark |
| Block | CJK Symbols and Punctuation |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 〒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 〒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x80 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3012 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003012 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3012 |