U+336E "㍮" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Twenty-Two Unicode Character
U+336E "㍮" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Twenty-Two is a specific code point within the CJK Compatibility block of the Unicode standard, representing a precomposed form used in historical telegraph and telecommunication systems for denoting the twenty-second hour of the day, specifically from 22:00 to 22:59 in a 24-hour format. This symbol was designed to simplify and standardize the encoding of time-related information in Chinese telegraph messages, where separate characters for digits and time indicators were combined into a single glyph for efficient transmission. It belongs to a series of hourly symbols from 0 to 23, each with a unique code point, and is primarily used in legacy contexts or specialized applications requiring compatibility with older telegraphic codes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+336E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Hour Twenty-Two |
| 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 "2" U+0032 Digit Two "点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x336E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000336E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u336e |