U+33E0 "㏠" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day One Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏠
U+33E0 "㏠" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day One is a single character that represents the first day of a month, specifically designed for use in historical or specialized Japanese telegraph and communication systems. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility block of Unicode, which contains symbols that were used in older date codes, calendars, or typewriter contexts before modern encoding practices. This character resembles the kanji for "one" combined with a stylized telegraphic abbreviation for "day," and it is rarely used in contemporary digital text but remains part of the standard for compatibility with legacy data.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33E0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day One |
| 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 "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33E0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033E0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33e0 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "1" U+0031 Digit One "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "1" U+0031 Digit One "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Han |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |