U+33F6 "㏶" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Three Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏶
U+33F6 "㏶" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Three is a specific character within the CJK Compatibility block, designed to represent the date "23rd" in the context of historical Japanese telegraph systems. This symbol combines the characters for "twenty" (二十) and "three" (三) into a single, compact ideograph for efficient transmission in coded telegrams. It is part of a larger set of symbols for all 31 days of the month, which were encoded in Unicode to support legacy East Asian communication formats and remain primarily used in specialized or archival contexts rather than modern everyday writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33F6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Three |
| 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 "3" U+0033 Digit Three "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33F6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033F6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33f6 |