U+33EE "㏮" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Fifteen Unicode Character
U+33EE "㏮" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Fifteen is a specific encoded symbol that was part of a block of characters designed for use in historical telegraphy, representing the fifteenth day of a standard month in a concise, single glyph format. This character falls within the CJK Compatibility block of Unicode, which contains various symbols, such as date and time indicators, that were used in East Asian telegraph codes to efficiently transmit information about dates. Its visual form combines the Chinese/Japanese ideograph for "fifteen" with a simplified telegraphic styling, allowing it to be quickly recognized in contexts like coded messages or legacy communication systems. While largely obsolete today due to advances in digital communication, the character is preserved in Unicode for purposes of historical accuracy and data interchange, ensuring that documents or systems relying on such symbols remain readable.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33EE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Fifteen |
| 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 "5" U+0035 Digit Five "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33EE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033EE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33ee |