U+33F8 "㏸" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Five Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏸
U+33F8 "㏸" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Five is a specific code point within the CJK Compatibility block, representing a numeral sequence used in vintage Japanese and Chinese telegraphic systems to encode the twenty-fifth day of a month. This symbol is part of a larger set of ideographic telegraph symbols, which were historically employed in telegrams to convey dates and times with a single, unambiguous character, thereby avoiding confusion between similar-sounding or similar-looking numbers. Without the use of emdashes or bullet points, the character stands as a compact encoding of the spoken phrase "day twenty five," preserving a small but important piece of early digital communication history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33F8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Five |
| 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 "5" U+0035 Digit Five "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33F8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33f8 |