U+32C2 "㋂" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for March Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㋂
U+32C2 "㋂" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for March is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) square symbol used within a block of characters originally designed for telecommunication systems. It represents the word "March" in a compact, ideographic form, typically appearing in telegraph or calendar contexts where space is limited. The character was added to the Unicode standard as part of a set of month and day abbreviations, with its square enclosure and stylized kanji or hanzi for the third month facilitating quick recognition in older teleprinter and fax machine systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32C2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for March |
| 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 | "3" U+0033 Digit Three "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㋂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㋂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8B 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32C2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032C2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32c2 |
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 | "3" U+0033 Digit Three "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "3" U+0033 Digit Three "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 |