U+32C0 "㋀" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for January Unicode Character

U+32C0 "㋀" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for January is a specific encoded symbol used in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) script block, representing the month of January as part of a standardized set of telegraph symbols for months. It was originally designed for use in old telegraphy systems to transmit month information efficiently, where a single character could convey the concept of January without needing to spell out the full word. Visually, it combines the Chinese character for month (月) with the numeral for one (一) or an abbreviation, rendered in a distinct square-like ideographic form that resembles a small enclosed symbol. This character is now primarily of historical and specialized interest, often seen in retro computing contexts, calendar applications, or documents referencing older communication standards, rather than in everyday modern text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+32C0
Version Added	1.1
Name	Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for January
Block	Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Compat
Decomposition Mapping	"1" U+0031 Digit One "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㋀
HTML Hex Encoding	㋀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x8B 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x32C0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000032C0
C/C++/Java Escape	\u32c0

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"1" U+0031 Digit One "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"1" U+0031 Digit One "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other