U+33E5 "㏥" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Six Unicode Character
U+33E5 "㏥" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Six is a specific character within the CJK Compatibility block, representing the sixth day of the month in the traditional Chinese calendar or dating systems used in telegraphic communications. Its design typically combines the Chinese character for "six" (六) with the character for "day" (日) into a single square block, mirroring the format of other day symbols in the same set. This character was included in Unicode to support legacy text formats, particularly those from historical East Asian telegraph codes where such compact symbols were used to save space in messages. While now largely obsolete in practical use, it remains encoded for digital preservation and compatibility with older documents or systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33E5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Six |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "6" U+0036 Digit Six "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33E5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033E5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33e5 |
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 | "6" U+0036 Digit Six "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "6" U+0036 Digit Six "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 |