U+3303 "㌃" Square Aaru Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌃
U+3303 "㌃" Square Aaru is a CJK Compatibility Ideograph representing a square or boxed form of the Japanese word "アール" (aaru), which is the Japanese transliteration of the unit of area "are," equivalent to 100 square meters or about 0.0247 acres. This character belongs to the CJK Compatibility block and is specifically used in East Asian text layouts, particularly in Japanese writing, where it serves as a single-character orthographic variant that condenses the two-character representation into a compact square symbol for ease of use in limited-space contexts such as land area notations or signage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3303 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Aaru |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Aaru |
| 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 "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark "ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3303 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003303 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3303 |