U+3364 "㍤" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Twelve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㍤
U+3364 "㍤" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Twelve is part of the CJK Compatibility block and represents the number twelve as used in telegraph communication systems, specifically within the historical context of the Ideographic Telegraph Symbols for Hours. This character was originally used in early Japanese and Chinese telegraph codes to denote the hour of twelve, functioning as a single glyph to replace the longer sequence of characters that would otherwise be required for clarity in transmission. It is most commonly found in older telecommunication documents or modern digital fonts that support the CJK Compatibility range, serving as a compact and unambiguous symbol for the twelfth hour of the day.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3364 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Twelve |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "1" U+0031 Digit One "2" U+0032 Digit Two "点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3364 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003364 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3364 |