U+33F1 "㏱" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Eighteen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏱
U+33F1 "㏱" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Eighteen is part of a block of characters known as CJK Compatibility, which was originally included to represent dates and times used in Japanese telegraph codes. This specific symbol encodes the number 18 as it would appear in a telegraph message, combining the Chinese characters for "ten" and "eight" into a single unit. It was adopted into Unicode for the purpose of preserving compatibility with older data and systems that utilized this specific notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33F1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Eighteen |
| 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 "8" U+0038 Digit Eight "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33F1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033F1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33f1 |