Japanese postal mark
Character representing the service mark of the postal operator in Japan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"〒" redirects here. For the almost identical symbol used in Kazakhstan, see Kazakhstani tenge.
〒 (郵便記号, yūbin kigō) is the service mark of Japan Post and its successor, Japan Post Holdings, the postal operator in Japan. It is also used as a Japanese postal code mark since the introduction of the latter in 1968. Historically, it was used by the Ministry of Communications (逓信省, Teishin-shō), which operated the postal service. The mark is a stylized katakana syllable te (テ), from the word teishin (逓信(テイシン), communications). The mark was introduced on February 8, 1887 (Meiji 20.2.8).
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