U+33EB "㏫" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twelve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏫
U+33EB "㏫" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twelve is a specialized glyph within the CJK Compatibility block, originally used in early telegraph systems to represent the twelfth day of a month in East Asian calendrical communication. This symbol belongs to a set of 24 such ideographic telegraph symbols, one for each day of a traditional solar term or month, designed to encode and transmit date information efficiently via telegrams. While it is largely obsolete in modern digital communication, it remains preserved in Unicode for historical and archival purposes, allowing text systems to accurately render older telegrams and documents that utilized these compact date codes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33EB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twelve |
| 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 "2" U+0032 Digit Two "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33EB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033EB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33eb |