U+3369 "㍩" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Seventeen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㍩
U+3369 "㍩" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Seventeen is a single glyph that represents the specific time of 17:00 in the old Japanese telegraph code system, used historically for concise message transmission. Encoded in the CJK Compatibility block of Unicode, it is part of a set of symbols designed to encode the hours from midnight to eleven PM, where each character is a vertical layout of the numeral and the kanji for "hour." This symbol is rarely used in modern digital text and primarily exists for compatibility with historical telegraphic data and specialized contexts like digital archiving or retro-style displays. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that legacy documents can be accurately represented without loss of meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3369 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Seventeen |
| 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 "7" U+0037 Digit Seven "点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3369 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003369 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3369 |