U+336B "㍫" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Nineteen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㍫
U+336B "㍫" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Nineteen is part of the CJK Compatibility block, specifically designed for use in historical East Asian telegraphy and timekeeping systems. It represents the nineteenth hour in a 24 hour clock, following the standardized format used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean telegraph codes to convey specific times concisely. This character is a composed ideograph, typically combining the numeral for 19 with the character for hour, and while it is rarely used in modern digital text, it serves as a remnant of earlier communication technologies. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures compatibility with legacy data and documents that relied on such symbols for efficient transmission of temporal information.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+336B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Nineteen |
| 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 "9" U+0039 Digit Nine "点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x336B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000336B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u336b |