U+32C8 "㋈" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for September Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㋈
U+32C8 "㋈" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for September is a specific glyph used within the Ideographic Telegraph Symbols block, designed to represent the month of September in a compact, monogram-like form for telecommunication and dated cable systems. This symbol, part of a set that covers all twelve months, combines the Japanese katakana character "ウ" with the number nine, reflecting the traditional East Asian way of abbreviating month names. It was encoded in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993 and is primarily used in historical or specialized contexts, such as in vintage telegraphy or data interchange formats where a single character stands for a month.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32C8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for September |
| 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 | "9" U+0039 Digit Nine "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㋈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㋈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8B 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32c8 |
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 | "9" U+0039 Digit Nine "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "9" U+0039 Digit Nine "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 |