U+3313 "㌓" Square Girudaa Unicode Character
U+3313 "㌓" Square Girudaa is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the Japanese word for "gerda" or "gyrda," specifically a square-shaped ligature combining the katakana syllables "gi" (ギ), "ru" (ル), and "da" (ダ) into a single compact symbol. This character belongs to the "CJK Compatibility" block of Unicode, which was designed to encode legacy characters once used in pre-existing character sets for Japanese text processing, particularly for representing loanwords or compound words in a vertically compressed, square format. The "Square" prefix in its name indicates its intended use as a mono-spaced, full-width character that fits neatly within square text grids, often seen in older Japanese typography or signage for brevity and visual consistency.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3313 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Girudaa |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Girudaa |
| 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 "ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru "ダ" U+30C0 Katakana Letter Da "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3313 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003313 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3313 |