U+32C6 "㋆" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for July Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㋆
U+32C6 "㋆" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for July is a dedicated symbol from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Compatibility block that was historically used in telegraphy to represent the month of July. Unlike a general numeral or character, this specific glyph was part of a standardized set of symbols designed for efficient and unambiguous communication in East Asian telegraph codes, where it represents the seventh month. Though rarely used in modern digital text, it remains a functional and encoded character for specialized historical or calendrical applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32C6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for July |
| 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 | "7" U+0037 Digit Seven "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㋆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㋆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8B 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32C6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032C6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32c6 |
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 | "7" U+0037 Digit Seven "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "7" U+0037 Digit Seven "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 |