U+33F8 "" Ideographic Telegraph Symbol for Day Twenty-Five Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

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.

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