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U+3012 · POSTAL MARK

Postal Mark

  • CodepointU+3012
  • NamePOSTAL MARK
  • Decimal12306
  • BlockCJK Symbols and Punctuation (U+3000–U+303F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+3012 (〒) is POSTAL MARK, a symbol in the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type 〒

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E3 80 923 bytes
UTF-1630121 code unit
UTF-32000030124 bytes
HTML decimal〒
HTML hex〒
CSS\3012in content: "…"
JavaScript\u3012
JSON\u3012
Python\u3012
Python\N{POSTAL MARK}by name
Java / C#\u3012
C / C++\u3012universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3012}
Go\u3012
Ruby\u3012
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(12306)
URL-encoded%E3%80%92percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+20B8₸Tenge Sign U+3036〶Circled Postal Mark
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Characters built on 〒

U+3036〶Circled Postal Mark
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Nearby in CJK Symbols and Punctuation

All in block →
U+300C「Left Corner Bracket U+300D」Right Corner Bracket U+300E『Left White Corner Bracket U+300F』Right White Corner Bracket U+3010【Left Black Lenticular Bracket U+3011】Right Black Lenticular Bracket U+3013〓Geta Mark U+3014〔Left Tortoise Shell Bracket U+3015〕Right Tortoise Shell Bracket U+3016〖Left White Lenticular Bracket U+3017〗Right White Lenticular Bracket U+3018〘Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket