U+32C4 "" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for May Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

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.

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