U+3312 "㌒" Square Kyurii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌒
U+3312 "㌒" Square Kyurii is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents a squared version of the katakana reading "kyurii," which is a phonetic approximation of the English word "curry" as used in Japanese. It belongs to the "CJK Compatibility" block and was encoded specifically for compatibility with earlier character standards, allowing for the representation of the word in a square format often used in East Asian typography for compact text or logos. This character is primarily employed in Japanese writing contexts to denote the dish curry, and it is one of many such squared katakana compounds that were standardized to preserve legacy character mappings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3312 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Kyurii |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Kyurii |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "キ" U+30AD Katakana Letter Ki "ュ" U+30E5 Katakana Letter Small Yu "リ" U+30EA Katakana Letter Ri "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3312 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003312 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3312 |