U+3317 "㌗" Square Kirowatto Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌗
U+3317 "㌗" Square Kirowatto is a CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the Japanese square spelling of the word "kilowatt," a unit of power equal to one thousand watts. This character belongs to the "CJK Compatibility" block, which encodes precomposed forms used in East Asian typography for aligning text in square grids, such as in vertical writing or on old-style computer displays. Its usage is primarily historical and specialized, found in older Japanese technical documents, signage, or typesetting where the squared format was employed to fit a single character space.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3317 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Kirowatto |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Kirowatto |
| 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 "ワ" U+30EF Katakana Letter Wa "ッ" U+30C3 Katakana Letter Small Tu "ト" U+30C8 Katakana Letter To |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3317 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003317 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3317 |