U+23CD "⏍" Square Foot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⏍
U+23CD "⏍" Square Foot is a typographic symbol used primarily in architectural and engineering notations to represent the unit of area measurement known as a square foot. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Technical block and was encoded in Unicode 5.0 in 2006, providing a standardized digital representation for this common symbol previously approximated by typing "sq ft" or using abbreviations. The character itself resembles a stylized uppercase "F" combined with a superscript "2" in a single glyph, allowing for concise and consistent notation in technical documents, blueprints, and real estate listings where space and clarity are important.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+23CD |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Square Foot |
| Block | Miscellaneous Technical |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⏍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⏍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x8F 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x23CD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000023CD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u23cd |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |