U+32C4 "㋄" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for May Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+32C4 "㋄" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for May is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that belongs to a set of symbols originally used in Japanese telegraphy to represent the months of the year. This specific character encodes the month of May in a compact, monogram-like form, which allowed for efficient transmission of date information in early telecommunication systems. Today, it is primarily a historical or specialized character used in encoding legacy data and is not commonly employed in modern digital text or everyday writing. Its representation as a single unified glyph reflects the practical need for brevity and standardization in early electronic messaging.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+32C4
Name
Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for May
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
㋄
HTML Hex Encoding
㋄
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE3 0x8B 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding
0x32C4
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000032C4
C/C++/Java Escape
\u32c4
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Han