U+32C9 "㋉" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for October Unicode Character
U+32C9 "㋉" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for October is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility block, specifically within a set of twelve symbols designed for use in telegraph or coded message systems to represent the months of the year. This particular character stands for the month of October, encoded in a compact, square form that resembles a stylized Japanese kanji or Chinese character for "10" combined with a month indicator. Historically, these symbols were utilized in telecommunication contexts, such as old telegrams or weather reports, to save space and ensure clarity in transmission. Today, the character is primarily used in East Asian typography or digital text to denote the tenth month in a concise, visually distinct manner.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32C9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for October |
| 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 | "1" U+0031 Digit One "0" U+0030 Digit Zero "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㋉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㋉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8B 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32c9 |