U+33ED "㏭" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Fourteen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏭
U+33ED "㏭" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Fourteen is a specialized symbol used in historical Chinese telegraphy to represent the fourteenth day of a month in a compact, standardized format. This character is part of a block of ideographic telegraph symbols that were developed to efficiently encode dates and common phrases for transmission over telegraph networks, where brevity and clarity were essential. It is composed of the CJK ideographs for "ten" and "four" combined to denote the number 14, reflecting the traditional Chinese numerical system. While rarely used in modern digital communication, it remains a part of Unicode to preserve historical data and support digital archiving of telegraphic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33ED |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Fourteen |
| 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 "4" U+0034 Digit Four "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33ED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033ED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33ed |