U+33F9 "㏹" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Six Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏹
U+33F9 "㏹" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Six is part of the CJK Compatibility block, specifically designed to represent the twenty sixth day of a month in an ideographic telegraph format. This character was included in Unicode to support legacy telecommunication systems, particularly those used in East Asia, where such symbols were employed for shorthand notation in telegraph messages. It visually combines the components for two, ten, and six to form a compact, single character that conveys the numeric date without requiring separate digits or text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33F9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Six |
| 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 "6" U+0036 Digit Six "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33F9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033F9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33f9 |