U+33F8 "㏸" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Five Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+33F8 "㏸" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Five is a specific code point within the CJK Compatibility block, representing a numeral sequence used in vintage Japanese and Chinese telegraphic systems to encode the twenty-fifth day of a month. This symbol is part of a larger set of ideographic telegraph symbols, which were historically employed in telegrams to convey dates and times with a single, unambiguous character, thereby avoiding confusion between similar-sounding or similar-looking numbers. Without the use of emdashes or bullet points, the character stands as a compact encoding of the spoken phrase "day twenty five," preserving a small but important piece of early digital communication history.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+33F8
Name
Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Five
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
㏸
HTML Hex Encoding
㏸
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE3 0x8F 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding
0x33F8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000033F8
C/C++/Java Escape
\u33f8
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Han