U+32CE "㋎" Square Ev Unicode Character

U+32CE "㋎" Square Ev is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the syllable “e” or “ev” enclosed within a square box, functioning as a typographic abbreviation often used in East Asian contexts, particularly in Japanese signage and labels, to denote “extra,” “evening,” or similar shortened terms, though its precise meaning is tied to the conventions of square-enclosed katakana and kanji abbreviations in legacy encoding systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+32CE
Version Added	4.0
Name	Square Ev
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 "V" U+0056 Latin Capital Letter V

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㋎
HTML Hex Encoding	㋎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x8B 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x32CE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000032CE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u32ce

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"e" U+0065 Latin Small Letter E "v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V
NFKC Simple Casefold	"e" U+0065 Latin Small Letter E "v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other