U+33FE "㏾" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Thirty-One Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏾
U+33FE "㏾" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Thirty-One is a specific code point within the CJK Compatibility block, designed to represent the thirty first day of a month in historical telegraphic communication systems from East Asia. This character is part of a larger set of symbols that were used to encode calendrical dates efficiently in telegrams, avoiding the need for full Chinese characters or complex numeric strings. Its visual appearance combines a variant of the Chinese numeral for thirty one, and it serves as a digital relic of early telecommunication practices, preserved in modern character encoding standards for compatibility and historical reference.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33FE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Thirty-One |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "3" U+0033 Digit Three "1" U+0031 Digit One "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33FE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033FE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33fe |