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 |