U+335A "㍚" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Two Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㍚
U+335A "㍚" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Two is a specific typographic element from the block of CJK Compatibility Ideographs, designed to represent the hour "two" in a format used historically for telegraphic communications and early text messaging systems in East Asia. It combines the character for "two" or "two o'clock" into a single compact symbol, allowing for more efficient transmission and display of time-related data in limited character sets. This symbol is not commonly used in everyday modern text but remains part of the Unicode standard to preserve compatibility with older encoding systems and historical documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+335A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Two |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "2" U+0032 Digit Two "点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x335A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000335A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u335a |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "2" U+0032 Digit Two "点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "2" U+0032 Digit Two "点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Han |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |