U+336C "㍬" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Twenty Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+336C "㍬" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Twenty is a precomposed CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) character used within the "CJK Compatibility" block, specifically representing the time "20:00" or the 20th hour of the day in the former Japanese telegraph system. This symbol compresses the kanji characters for "20" (二十, nijuu) and "hour" (時, ji) into a single, compact glyph, which was historically employed in telegrams or shorthand notations to save space and standardize timing communications. While modern digital usage is rare, it remains encoded in Unicode for legacy and compatibility purposes, particularly in East Asian contexts where such telegraphic symbols once facilitated efficient message transmission.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+336C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Twenty |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "2" U+0032 Digit Two "0" U+0030 Digit Zero "点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x336C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000336C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u336c |