U+33E9 "㏩" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Ten Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏩
U+33E9 "㏩" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Ten is a specific code point in the CJK Compatibility block of the Unicode standard, representing the number ten in the context of Japanese telegraph and date notation. This character is one of a series of symbols originally used in historical electric telegraph systems to efficiently convey calendar dates, with the "Day Ten" symbol corresponding to the tenth day of a month. While its use is now largely obsolete due to modern digital communication methods, it remains encoded in Unicode for historical compatibility and to preserve legacy data, typically appearing in specialized fonts or documents referencing old telegraphic formats.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33E9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Ten |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "1" U+0031 Digit One "0" U+0030 Digit Zero "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33E9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033E9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33e9 |