U+3301 "㌁" Square Aruhua Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+3301 "㌁" Square Aruhua is a CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the word "Aruhua," a phonetic transcription of the English word "ale" rendered in katakana as アルコール (arukōru), meaning alcohol. This character is part of the CJK Compatibility block, historically used in Japanese typography to form single square cells for compound words and abbreviations, though it is now largely obsolete in modern digital text.

General Properties

Code Point U+3301
Version Added 1.1
Name Square Aruhua
Unicode 1.0 Name Squared Aruhua
Block CJK Compatibility
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Square
Decomposition Mapping "ア" U+30A2 Katakana Letter A
"ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru
"フ" U+30D5 Katakana Letter Hu
"ァ" U+30A1 Katakana Letter Small A

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㌁
HTML Hex Encoding ㌁
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x8C 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0x3301
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00003301
C/C++/Java Escape \u3301

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 "ア" U+30A2 Katakana Letter A
"ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru
"フ" U+30D5 Katakana Letter Hu
"ァ" U+30A1 Katakana Letter Small A
NFKC Simple Casefold "ア" U+30A2 Katakana Letter A
"ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru
"フ" U+30D5 Katakana Letter Hu
"ァ" U+30A1 Katakana Letter Small A
Script Katakana
Script Extensions Katakana
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Transformed Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Katakana
Sentence Break Other