U+330C "㌌" Square Karatto Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌌
U+330C "㌌" Square Karatto is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the word "carat" in a square or tate-chu-yoko format, typically used in Japanese typography for measuring the purity of gold or the weight of gemstones. It is derived from the English loanword "karatto" and is part of the "CJK Compatibility Ideographs" block, which was originally encoded for compatibility with older Japanese character sets like JIS X 0208. This character is distinct from standard CJK unified ideographs and is intended for use in contexts where a compact, single-cell representation of the term is needed, such as in price tags or measurements.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+330C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Karatto |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Karatto |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "カ" U+30AB Katakana Letter Ka "ラ" U+30E9 Katakana Letter Ra "ッ" U+30C3 Katakana Letter Small Tu "ト" U+30C8 Katakana Letter To |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x330C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000330C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u330c |