U+33E8 "㏨" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Nine Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏨
U+33E8 "㏨" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Nine is a specific encoding within the CJK Compatibility block, representing the numeral nine combined with the Chinese character for "day" in a single square-shaped logogram. This symbol was historically used in 19th and early 20th century Chinese telegraphy, where a standardized codebook assigned such characters to represent dates, time slots, or numbered items in telegrams for brevity and clarity. The character thus serves as a compact visual shorthand for the ninth day of a month, preserving a unique artifact of early telecommunication technology within modern digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33E8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Nine |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "9" U+0039 Digit Nine "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33e8 |
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 | "9" U+0039 Digit Nine "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "9" U+0039 Digit Nine "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 |