U+3315 "㌕" Square Kiroguramu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌕
U+3315 "㌕" Square Kiroguramu is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph, specifically a squared Katakana word that represents the Japanese abbreviation for "kilogram," combining the syllables キ (ki), ロ (ro), グ (gu), ラ (ra), and ム (mu) into a single, compact square-shaped character. It belongs to the "CJK Compatibility" block, where it was encoded primarily for round-trip compatibility with older Japanese character encodings, and it is used in modern typography to denote the metric unit of mass in a visually unified manner, often found in Japanese text for labels, measurements, and tables where space efficiency is desired.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3315 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Kiroguramu |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Kiroguramu |
| 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 "ロ" U+30ED Katakana Letter Ro "グ" U+30B0 Katakana Letter Gu "ラ" U+30E9 Katakana Letter Ra "ム" U+30E0 Katakana Letter Mu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3315 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003315 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3315 |