U+33F0 "㏰" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Seventeen Unicode Character
U+33F0 "㏰" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Seventeen is a specific encoded symbol from the CJK Compatibility block, designed to represent the number 17 in a format used by historical East Asian telegraph systems. This character visually combines the Chinese characters for "ten" and "seven" into a square monogram, reflecting its origin in the standardized codebooks that allowed operators to efficiently transmit calendar dates and numeric data over telegraph lines. It is considered a compatibility character, meaning its primary purpose is to maintain round trip fidelity with older character set standards, and its use today is largely limited to specialized contexts such as historical document preservation, retro digital formats, or linguistic studies of telegraphic notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33F0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Seventeen |
| 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 "7" U+0037 Digit Seven "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33F0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033F0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33f0 |