U+3368 "㍨" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Sixteen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㍨
U+3368 "㍨" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Sixteen is a specific code point in the CJK Compatibility block of the Unicode standard, representing a legacy symbol used in old telegraph systems within China and East Asia to denote the sixteenth hour of the day. This symbol corresponds to the time period from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM in the traditional Chinese double-hour system, where each hour mark was assigned a unique telegraphic code for efficient numeric transmission.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3368 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Sixteen |
| 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 "6" U+0036 Digit Six "点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3368 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003368 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3368 |