U+32CD "㋍" Square Erg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㋍
U+32CD "㋍" Square Erg is a CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the unit of energy or work known as the erg, enclosed within a square box for use in East Asian text, particularly Japanese industrial or scientific contexts. It is part of the "CJK Compatibility" block, which was designed to encode precomposed forms that appear in older character sets, allowing this symbol to be displayed as a single square unit rather than as separate characters. The erg itself is a unit in the centimeter-gram-second system, equal to 10⁻⁷ joules, and this squared notation provides a compact, standardized way to denote the unit in technical writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32CD |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Square Erg |
| Block | Enclosed CJK Letters and Months |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "e" U+0065 Latin Small Letter E "r" U+0072 Latin Small Letter R "g" U+0067 Latin Small Letter G |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㋍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㋍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8B 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32CD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032CD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32cd |