U+3020 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block CJK Symbols and Punctuation in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+3020 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
〒 (郵便マーク, Yūbin māku) is the service mark of Japan Post, the postal operator in Japan. It is also used as a Japanese postal code mark. The mark is stylized katakana syllable te (テ), from the word teishin (逓信 communications). The mark dates from the pre-World War II era, when literacy was less complete, the katakana symbol being more easily recognized than a kanji.
To indicate a postal code, the mark is written first, and the postal code is written after. For example, one area of Meguro, Tokyo, would have 〒153-0061 written on any mail, in order to direct mail to that location. This usage has resulted in the inclusion of the mark into the Japanese character sets for computers, and thus eventually their inclusion into Unicode, where it can be found on the Japanese Post Office emoji. In most keyboard-based Japanese input systems, it can be created by typing "yuubin" and then doing a kanji conversion.
Of the versions shown to the right, the one on the far right is the standard mark used in addressing. The circled yūbin mark in the middle is often used on maps to denote post offices.
System | Representation |
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Nº | 12320 |
UTF-8 | E3 80 A0 |
UTF-16 | 30 20 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 30 20 |
URL-Quoted | %E3%80%A0 |
HTML-Escape | 〠 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ã |
digraph | =T:) |
Property | Value |
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Age (age) | 1.1 |
Unicode Name (na) | POSTAL MARK FACE |
Unicode 1 Name (na1) | — |
Block (blk) | CJK_Symbols |
General Category (gc) | Other Symbol |
Script (sc) | Common |
Bidirectional Category (bc) | Other Neutral |
Combining Class (ccc) | Not Reordered |
Decomposition Type (dt) | None |
Decomposition Mapping (dm) |
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Lowercase (Lower) | ✘ |
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) |
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Lowercase Mapping (lc) |
|
Uppercase (Upper) | ✘ |
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) |
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Uppercase Mapping (uc) |
|
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) |
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Titlecase Mapping (tc) |
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Case Folding (cf) |
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ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) | ✘ |
Alphabetic (Alpha) | ✘ |
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) | ✘ |
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) | ✘ |
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) |
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Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) | None |
Cased (Cased) | ✘ |
Composition Exclusion (CE) | ✘ |
Case Ignorable (CI) | ✘ |
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) | ✘ |
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) | ✘ |
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) | ✘ |
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) | ✘ |
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) | ✘ |
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) | ✘ |
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) | ✘ |
Dash (Dash) | ✘ |
Deprecated (Dep) | ✘ |
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) | ✘ |
Diacritic (Dia) | ✘ |
East Asian Width (ea) | Wide |
Extender (Ext) | ✘ |
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) |
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Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) | Any |
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) | ✔ |
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) | ✘ |
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) | ✘ |
Hex Digit (Hex) | ✘ |
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) | Not Applicable |
Hyphen (Hyphen) | ✘ |
ID Continue (IDC) | ✘ |
Ideographic (Ideo) | ✘ |
ID Start (IDS) | ✘ |
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) | ✘ |
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) | ✘ |
InMC (InMC) | — |
Indic Positional Category (InPC) | NA |
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) | Other |
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) | — |
Joining Group (jg) | No_Joining_Group |
Join Control (Join_C) | ✘ |
Jamo Short Name (JSN) | — |
Joining Type (jt) | Non Joining |
Line Break (lb) | Ideographic |
Logical Order Exception (LOE) | ✘ |
Math (Math) | ✘ |
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) | ✘ |
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) | Yes |
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) | Yes |
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) |
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NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) | Yes |
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) | Yes |
Numeric Type (nt) | None |
Numeric Value (nv) | NaN |
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) | ✘ |
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) | ✘ |
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) | ✘ |
Other ID Continue (OIDC) | ✘ |
Other ID Start (OIDS) | ✘ |
Other Lowercase (OLower) | ✘ |
Other Math (OMath) | ✘ |
Other Uppercase (OUpper) | ✘ |
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) | ✔ |
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) | ✘ |
Quotation Mark (QMark) | ✘ |
Radical (Radical) | ✘ |
Sentence Break (SB) | Other |
Simple Case Folding (scf) |
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Script Extension (scx) | Common |
Soft Dotted (SD) | ✘ |
STerm (STerm) | ✘ |
Terminal Punctuation (Term) | ✘ |
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) | ✘ |
Variation Selector (VS) | ✘ |
Word Break (WB) | Other |
White Space (WSpace) | ✘ |
XID Continue (XIDC) | ✘ |
XID Start (XIDS) | ✘ |
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) | ✘ |
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) | ✘ |
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) | ✘ |
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) | ✘ |