U+32CA "㋊" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for November Unicode Character
U+32CA "㋊" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for November is a specific glyph from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility block, originally designed for use in historical telegraphy systems where it served as a compact symbol to represent the month of November. Its design is a simple, stylized rendering of the Chinese character for "November" (十一月), encapsulated within a square outline to mimic the format of telegraph code symbols. This character was included in Unicode to maintain compatibility with older East Asian telegraph and data transmission standards, preserving its functional role in encoding month values in plain text. While rarely used in modern digital communication, it remains a distinctive artifact of pre-digital encoding practices and is occasionally employed in specialized contexts like calendar entries or retro‑themed typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32CA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for November |
| 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 "1" U+0031 Digit One "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㋊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㋊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8B 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32CA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32ca |