U+33F3 "㏳" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏳
U+33F3 "㏳" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty is a specific symbol encoded within the CJK Compatibility block, representing the numeral "20" enclosed within brackets, designed for use in telegraphic or coded messages to clearly denote the twentieth day of a month without ambiguity. Originating from Japanese telegraph codes known as "Denshin Fugo," these symbols were historically employed to simplify and standardize the transmission of dates and simple text over telecommunication networks. While its usage has declined with modern technology, the character remains a part of the Unicode standard to ensure digital preservation of this historical communication system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33F3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "2" U+0032 Digit Two "0" U+0030 Digit Zero "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33F3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033F3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33f3 |