U+3361 "㍡" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Nine Unicode Character
U+3361 "㍡" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Nine is a specific typographic glyph used in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) character block, representing the Chinese character for "nine" (九) combined with the character for "hour" (時) in a compact, ideographic form. This symbol was historically employed in the context of telegraphic communication, where it served as a standardized shorthand for indicating the hour of nine o'clock, particularly in East Asian telegraph systems that utilized coded numerical or ideographic sequences. In modern digital environments, it is primarily used for legacy or stylistic purposes, such as in historical documents, time-related displays, or when precise, traditional time notation is desired. The character belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which includes symbols from older industrial and communication standards that have been preserved in Unicode for compatibility with pre-existing systems and texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3361 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Nine |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "9" U+0039 Digit Nine "点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3361 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003361 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3361 |
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 | "9" U+0039 Digit Nine "点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "9" U+0039 Digit Nine "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 |