U+33E1 "" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Two Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+33E1 "" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Two is a specific code point within the Unicode standard that represents a numeral "2" inside a square frame, historically used in Japanese telegraphy to denote the second day of a month. This symbol is part of a set of ideographic telegraph symbols (U+33C2 to U+33D4) that were designed for efficient transmission of dates in the old Japanese telegraph system, where each day was assigned a unique compact character. Although its practical use has declined with modern communication methods, the character remains preserved in Unicode for compatibility with historical documents and text processing systems.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
㏡
HTML Hex Encoding
㏡
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE3 0x8F 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding
0x33E1
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000033E1
C/C++/Java Escape
\u33e1