U+335C "㍜" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Four Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㍜
U+335C "㍜" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Four is a legacy codepoint representing the number four in a stylized form used in old Japanese telegraph and telecommunication systems. This symbol is part of a standardized series of telegraph symbols for the hours of the day, allowing for concise numeric transmission of time in ideographic script. Found within the CJK Compatibility block of the Unicode standard, it is primarily intended for compatibility with historical character sets and is not commonly used in modern digital text or everyday writing. Its presence ensures that documents and data from earlier telegraphic encoding remain accurately representable in contemporary computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+335C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Four |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "4" U+0034 Digit Four "点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x335C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000335C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u335c |
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 | "4" U+0034 Digit Four "点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "4" U+0034 Digit Four "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 |