U+33E2 "㏢" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Three Unicode Character

U+33E2 "㏢" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Three is a specific code point in the Unicode Standard that represents the concept of "day three" in the context of historical telegraph communication. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility block, which includes symbols originally used for transmitting Japanese telegraph messages in a compact, ideographic format. Visually, it appears as the Chinese character for "three" (三) combined with a variant of the character for "day" (日), forming a composite glyph that encodes the third day of a month or a designated three-day period. This symbol is primarily of historical and technical interest, as it is part of a set of telegraph symbols designed for efficient encoding in early telecommunication systems, and it is rarely used in modern digital text outside of specialized contexts or historical documentation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+33E2
Version Added	1.1
Name	Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Three
Block	CJK Compatibility
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Compat
Decomposition Mapping	"3" U+0033 Digit Three "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㏢
HTML Hex Encoding	㏢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x8F 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x33E2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000033E2
C/C++/Java Escape	\u33e2

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	"3" U+0033 Digit Three "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"3" U+0033 Digit Three "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