U+3366 "㍦" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Fourteen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㍦
U+3366 "㍦" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Fourteen is a special CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph used in older telegraph and telecommunication systems to represent the time 14:00 or 2 PM in a single, compact symbol. This character belongs to the "CJK Compatibility" block, which was designed to encode precomposed forms that existed in legacy character sets, such as those used in Japanese telegraphy. It visually combines the Chinese numeral for fourteen (十四) with the character for hour (時 or time) into one unit, facilitating efficient transmission of time data in coded messages. Though rarely used in modern digital communication, it remains a historical artifact of early telecommunication encoding practices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3366 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Fourteen |
| 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 "4" U+0034 Digit Four "点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3366 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003366 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3366 |