U+33E4 "㏤" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Five Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

㏤

U+33E4 "㏤" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Five is a specific encoded symbol used to represent the fifth day of the month in Chinese telegraphic code, a legacy numeric encoding system that was historically employed for concise communication via telegram messages. This symbol belongs to the Unicode block for CJK Compatibility, which contains ideographic symbols that were standardized for telegraphy and other specialized industrial uses. It resembles or simplifies the Chinese character for "five" combined with the character for "day," serving as a compact, unambiguous way to indicate the date "5th" in a text, without requiring full Chinese script. While largely obsolete today due to digital communication methods, the character remains defined in Unicode for compatibility with older data and historical documents.

General Properties

Code Point	U+33E4
Version Added	1.1
Name	Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Five
Block	CJK Compatibility
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Compat
Decomposition Mapping	"5" U+0035 Digit Five "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㏤
HTML Hex Encoding	㏤
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x8F 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x33E4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000033E4
C/C++/Java Escape	\u33e4

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	"5" U+0035 Digit Five "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"5" U+0035 Digit Five "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