U+330F "㌏" Square Ganma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌏
U+330F "㌏" Square Ganma is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents a squared katakana rendering of the word "ganma," which is the Japanese pronunciation of the Greek letter "gamma." It is part of the "CJK Compatibility" block, a set of characters originally included for compatibility with older Japanese character encodings like Shift JIS, where such squared forms were used as shorthand for specific terms. In practical use, this character appears in contexts where "gamma" is abbreviated, such as in scientific, mathematical, or technical notation, particularly in Japanese typography where a square encloses the katakana characters "ガ" (ga), "ン" (n), and "マ" (ma) to form a compact symbol.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+330F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Ganma |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Ganma |
| 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 "ン" U+30F3 Katakana Letter N "マ" U+30DE Katakana Letter Ma |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x330F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000330F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u330f |