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The katakana テ in a circle.
Also known as: Yūbin mark, Japan Post symbol, Postal mark, Katakana te in a circle
The post office mark is the katakana character テ, from 逓信 (teishin, 'communications'), the name of the ministry that ran the post. It is a letter used as a pictogram — the symbol is legible only to someone who knows what it once abbreviated.
Denotes a post office on a Japanese topographic map, drawn as the katakana character テ within a circle.
Contexts: Maps
Derives from teishin, the word for communications, and hence from the former Ministry of Communications that operated the postal service.
Contexts: Maps
Is also the Japan Post corporate mark, so the same character appears on postboxes and on branch signage as well as on maps.
Contexts: Maps
The katakana character テ — a short horizontal stroke above a longer one, with a vertical stroke curving down from the centre of the lower — enclosed in a circle.