U+32CB "㋋" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for December Unicode Character
U+32CB "㋋" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for December is a specific glyph from the Telegraph Symbols block representation of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) symbol for the twelfth month, which was originally used in older telecommunication systems such as telegraph codes and weather charts to concisely denote December. It is formed by combining a CJK numeric character for twelve with the symbol for month, creating a compact ideograph that transmits quickly in coded messages or tabular data. This character is part of a standardized set of 12 telegraphic month symbols encoded in Unicode to preserve the historical and functional utility of these concise ideograms in digital text, allowing for unambiguous representation of the month of December in contexts like telegrams, scheduling, and archival documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32CB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for December |
| 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 "2" U+0032 Digit Two "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㋋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㋋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8B 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32CB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032CB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32cb |