U+33E7 "㏧" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Eight Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏧
U+33E7 "㏧" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Eight is a specific code point within the CJK Compatibility block of the Unicode standard, originally designed for use in telegraphy to represent the eighth day of a month in East Asian contexts. This character combines the Chinese/Japanese ideogram for "eight" (八) with a telegraph-specific formatting, allowing for the concise transmission of date information over telegraph wires. While largely historical due to the decline of telegraphy, it remains supported in modern digital text for compatibility with legacy systems and for use in specialized applications or historical documentation, ensuring that this once-essential symbol is preserved for digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33E7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Eight |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "8" U+0038 Digit Eight "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33E7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033E7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33e7 |
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 | "8" U+0038 Digit Eight "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "8" U+0038 Digit Eight "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 |