U+3301 "㌁" Square Aruhua Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌁
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 |