U+3307 "㌇" Square Esukuudo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌇
U+3307 "㌇" Square Esukuudo is a CJK compatibility ideograph representing a squared version of the Katakana rendering of the English word "escudo," which was the former currency of Portugal and several of its colonies. This character is part of the "CJK Compatibility" block in Unicode, designed for compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards where such squared forms were used to fit Latin loanwords or abbreviations into monospaced text cells. While primarily a historic and typographic artifact, it encodes the specific currency name within a single character for use in contexts like legacy text processing or specialized CJK typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3307 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Esukuudo |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Esukuudo |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "エ" U+30A8 Katakana Letter E "ス" U+30B9 Katakana Letter Su "ク" U+30AF Katakana Letter Ku "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark "ド" U+30C9 Katakana Letter Do |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3307 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003307 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3307 |