U+335E "㍞" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Six Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+335E "㍞" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Six is a specialized CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that was historically used in telegraph communication systems to represent the sixth hour of the day in a compact, standardized form. It belongs to a block of symbols designed for encoding telegraphic signals where space and clarity were critical, allowing operators to transmit time-related information efficiently. Today, this character is primarily of historical and digital preservation interest, appearing in legacy documents or specialized contexts rather than in modern everyday writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+335E
Version Added 1.1
Name Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Six
Block CJK Compatibility
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping "6" U+0036 Digit Six
"点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㍞
HTML Hex Encoding ㍞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x8D 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x335E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000335E
C/C++/Java Escape \u335e

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 "6" U+0036 Digit Six
"点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "6" U+0036 Digit Six
"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