U+330D "㌍" Square Karorii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌍
U+330D "㌍" Square Karorii is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents a square version of the katakana word "カロリー" (karorii), which is the Japanese transliteration of the English word "calorie." This character belongs to the "CJK Compatibility" block, a set of square-form symbols originally designed for East Asian text processing to fit neatly into a fixed-width grid, often used in older computer systems or typesetting to represent multi-syllable loanwords. It is primarily employed in Japanese contexts, such as on nutritional labels, menus, or calorie counters, to denote the unit of energy in a compact, single-character form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+330D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Karorii |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Karorii |
| 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 "ロ" U+30ED Katakana Letter Ro "リ" U+30EA Katakana Letter Ri "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x330D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000330D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u330d |