U+32FF "㋿" Square Era Name Reiwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㋿
U+32FF "㋿" Square Era Name Reiwa is a single CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) square symbol representing the new Japanese era name Reiwa, which began on May 1, 2019, upon the ascension of Emperor Naruhito. This character was officially added to the Unicode Standard to allow digital systems to correctly encode and display the Reiwa era designation, following the pattern of previous era name squares like Meiji, Taisho, Showa, and Heisei. It is used in Japanese calendars, government documents, and software to denote the year within the Reiwa period, such as "㋿1" for the first year of the era.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+32FF |
| Version Added | 12.1 |
| Name | Square Era Name Reiwa |
| Block | Enclosed CJK Letters and Months |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "令" U+4EE4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "和" U+548C CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㋿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㋿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8B 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x32FF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000032FF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u32ff |