U+335B "㍛" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Three Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

㍛

U+335B "㍛" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Three is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the time 3:00, specifically used in historical telegraph code systems to efficiently transmit times in East Asian contexts. This character is composed of the numeral for "three" (三) and the kanji for "hour" (時), combined into a single square glyph to save space and standardize messaging. It is part of the CJK Compatibility block in Unicode, which preserves these precomposed forms for backward compatibility with older character sets used in Japanese telegraphy and other legacy systems. Today, while rarely needed in modern digital communication, it remains available for encoding historical texts or specialized applications requiring precise representation of telegraphic symbols.

General Properties

Code Point	U+335B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Three
Block	CJK Compatibility
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Compat
Decomposition Mapping	"3" U+0033 Digit Three "点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㍛
HTML Hex Encoding	㍛
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x8D 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x335B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000335B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u335b

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	"3" U+0033 Digit Three "点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"3" U+0033 Digit Three "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