Several versions of the 〒 mark.

〒 (郵便マーク, Yūbin māku^?) is the service mark of the postal system in Japan. In some countries notably the United States, a Trademark used to identify a service rather than a product is called a service mark or servicemark was a public corporation in Japan, that existed from 2003–2007 offering postal and package delivery services banking services and life insurance It is also used as a Japanese postal code mark. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. A postal code (known in various countries as a post code, postcode, or ZIP code) is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a The mark is stylized katakana syllable te (テ), from the word teishin (逓信 communications). is a Japanese Syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with Hiragana, Kanji, and in some cases the Latin alphabet

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. is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. It calls itself Meguro City in English This usage has resulted in the inclusion of the mark into the Japanese character sets for computers. is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities A character encoding consists of a code that pairs a sequence of characters from a given character set (sometimes incorrectly referred to as Code page A computer is a Machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions.

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.

See also

• Japan Post#Postal symbol
• Japanese addressing system
• Japanese typographic symbols
• Japanese map symbols

External links

• Official Postal Site (English version)