U+336A "㍪" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Eighteen Unicode Character
U+336A "㍪" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Eighteen is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the number 18 in the context of time, specifically the eighteenth hour of the day according to a traditional 24-hour telegraph or clock system. It was originally used in telegrams and early timekeeping formats within East Asian telegraphic codes, where such symbols provided a concise way to encode hour markers. This character is part of a larger set of telegraph symbols for hours one through twenty-four, and it is classified under the Unicode block for CJK Compatibility, meaning it was included to maintain round-trip compatibility with older encoding standards rather than for modern daily use. In contemporary contexts, it is considered a historical or specialized character, rarely employed in standard text but still preserved in Unicode for digital representation of legacy documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+336A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Eighteen |
| 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 "8" U+0038 Digit Eight "点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x336A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000336A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u336a |