U+3311 "㌑" Square Ginii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌑
U+3311 "㌑" Square Ginii is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph, specifically a squared form of the Japanese katakana word "ギニー" (ginii), which itself is a phonetic transcription of the English word "guinea." This character belongs to the "CJK Compatibility" block, a set of characters encoded primarily for compatibility with older East Asian text encodings, where it represents a unit of currency or a historical reference to the guinea coin in a compact, square-shaped display. It is used in vertical text layouts or specialized typographic contexts, but its usage is largely historical or technical, as modern text processing often handles the full-width or normal katakana spelling instead.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3311 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Ginii |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Ginii |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ギ" U+30AE Katakana Letter Gi "ニ" U+30CB Katakana Letter Ni "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3311 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003311 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3311 |