U+33FA "㏺" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Seven Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏺
U+33FA "㏺" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Seven is a specialized cuneiform-like glyph that was encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the CJK Compatibility block, where it represents the numerical date "27" in the style used by historical Japanese and Chinese telegraph code systems. This symbol was employed in early telegraphy to efficiently transmit calendar dates without ambiguity, combining the Chinese character for day with a numeric indicator. Today, it is largely obsolete but persists in digital text as a relic of 20th century communication technology, ensuring compatibility with older data formats and archival documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33FA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Seven |
| 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 "7" U+0037 Digit Seven "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33FA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033FA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33fa |