U+32C7 "㋇" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for August Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㋇
U+32C7 "㋇" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for August is a visual shorthand used in East Asian telegraphy, representing the eighth month of the year within a set of standardized symbols for dates. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility block, which preserves legacy ideographs and symbols from older telegraph and communication systems. The character combines the numeral for eight (八) inside an enclosure resembling the month symbol, allowing for clear and concise transmission of the month "August" in coded messages without ambiguity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32C7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for August |
| 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 | "8" U+0038 Digit Eight "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㋇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㋇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8B 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32C7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032C7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32c7 |
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 | "8" U+0038 Digit Eight "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "8" U+0038 Digit Eight "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 |