U+33E6 "㏦" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Seven Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+33E6 "㏦" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Seven is a specific code point within the Unicode standard that represents the seventh day of a month, primarily used in East Asian telegraphic or date notation systems. It is part of a block of similar symbols designed to encode the days of the month for use in coded telegraph messages, where brevity and clarity were essential. This character visually combines the CJK ideograph for "seven" with a simplified or stylized format that distinguishes it from standard text, serving a niche but historically important function in pre-digital communication methods.

General Properties

Code Point U+33E6
Version Added 1.1
Name Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Seven
Block CJK Compatibility
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping "7" U+0037 Digit Seven
"日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㏦
HTML Hex Encoding ㏦
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x8F 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0x33E6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000033E6
C/C++/Java Escape \u33e6

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 "7" U+0037 Digit Seven
"日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "7" U+0037 Digit Seven
"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