U+3308 "㌈" Square Eekaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌈
U+3308 "㌈" Square Eekaa is a CJK compatibility ideograph that represents a square version of the Japanese katakana word "イーカー" (īkā), which is a transliteration of the English word "eeker" and is used as a unit of measurement for electrical inductance, specifically meaning microhenry, though it is largely obsolete and found primarily in older Japanese technical texts and compatibility character blocks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3308 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Eekaa |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Eekaa |
| 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 "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark "カ" U+30AB Katakana Letter Ka "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3308 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003308 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3308 |