U+3316 "㌖" Square Kiromeetoru Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌖
U+3316 "㌖" Square Kiromeetoru is a precomposed CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the Japanese katakana word "kiromeetoru," a transliteration of the metric unit "kilometer." It is classified as a square character, meaning it occupies a single character width in text, and is part of a set of such squared units and terms created for compatibility with earlier Japanese text encoding standards, where it was used to save space or maintain consistent vertical and horizontal alignment. This character is now primarily encountered in legacy or specialized contexts rather than in modern standard Japanese writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3316 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Kiromeetoru |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Kiromeetoru |
| 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 "メ" U+30E1 Katakana Letter Me "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark "ト" U+30C8 Katakana Letter To "ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3316 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003316 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3316 |