U+330E "㌎" Square Garon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌎
U+330E "㌎" Square Garon is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) square character that represents the phonetic rendering of the French word "garon," which itself is a misspelling or variant of "garçon," meaning "boy" or "waiter" in French. This character was encoded as part of the CJK Compatibility block in Unicode, specifically designed to fit into a square-shaped space for compatibility with older Japanese character sets and text formats where such symbols were used to represent foreign loanwords or place names. In practice, "㌎" is rarely used in modern Japanese writing, having been largely replaced by standard katakana spellings, but it remains preserved in the Unicode standard for historical and interoperability purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+330E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Garon |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Garon |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ガ" U+30AC Katakana Letter Ga "ロ" U+30ED Katakana Letter Ro "ン" U+30F3 Katakana Letter N |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x330E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000330E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u330e |