U+33F5 "㏵" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Two Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏵
U+33F5 "㏵" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Two is a specific encoded symbol from the CJK Compatibility block, designed to represent the phrase "day twenty-two" in a compact ideographic form for use in early telegraph communication systems. This character is part of a larger set of symbols that encode dates from day one to day thirty-one, allowing efficient transmission of calendar information in East Asian contexts. Its appearance combines the Chinese numeral 廿 (meaning twenty) with the character 二 (meaning two), reflecting a traditional method of writing the number 22, and it is primarily of historical interest today, though it remains available in modern digital fonts for specialized or historical text rendering.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33F5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Two |
| 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 "2" U+0032 Digit Two "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33F5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033F5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33f5 |