U+33E1 "㏡" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Two Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏡
U+33E1 "㏡" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Two is a specific code point within the Unicode standard that represents a numeral "2" inside a square frame, historically used in Japanese telegraphy to denote the second day of a month. This symbol is part of a set of ideographic telegraph symbols (U+33C2 to U+33D4) that were designed for efficient transmission of dates in the old Japanese telegraph system, where each day was assigned a unique compact character. Although its practical use has declined with modern communication methods, the character remains preserved in Unicode for compatibility with historical documents and text processing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33E1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day 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 "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33E1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033E1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33e1 |
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 | "2" U+0032 Digit Two "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "2" U+0032 Digit Two "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 |