U+33FC "㏼" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Nine Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏼
U+33FC "㏼" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Nine is a specialized character from the CJK Compatibility block, designed to encode the Chinese telegraphic code for the twenty-ninth day of a month. This symbol was historically used in telegraph communications to efficiently represent dates in East Asian contexts, where each day of the month had a distinct coded character. It appears as a single monogram combining the characters for "two" and "nine" and serves as a digital representation of a legacy system for transmitting numeric date information over telegraph networks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33FC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Nine |
| 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 "9" U+0039 Digit Nine "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33FC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33fc |