U+3304 "㌄" Square Iningu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌄
U+3304 "㌄" Square Iningu is a CJK compatibility ideograph that represents a squared, two-character abbreviation for the katakana word "イニング" (iningu), which itself is a Japanese loanword derived from the English "innings" in baseball. This character belongs to the CJK Compatibility block, where it was encoded for roundtrip compatibility with older Japanese text encoding standards, such as Shift JIS, where it appeared as a single cell in square character forms often used in vertical writing or limited-width displays.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3304 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Iningu |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Iningu |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "イ" U+30A4 Katakana Letter I "ニ" U+30CB Katakana Letter Ni "ン" U+30F3 Katakana Letter N "グ" U+30B0 Katakana Letter Gu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3304 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003304 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3304 |