U+32C4 "㋄" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for May Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㋄
U+32C4 "㋄" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for May is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that belongs to a set of symbols originally used in Japanese telegraphy to represent the months of the year. This specific character encodes the month of May in a compact, monogram-like form, which allowed for efficient transmission of date information in early telecommunication systems. Today, it is primarily a historical or specialized character used in encoding legacy data and is not commonly employed in modern digital text or everyday writing. Its representation as a single unified glyph reflects the practical need for brevity and standardization in early electronic messaging.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32C4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for May |
| 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 | "5" U+0035 Digit Five "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㋄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㋄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8B 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32C4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032C4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32c4 |
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 | "5" U+0035 Digit Five "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "5" U+0035 Digit Five "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 |