U+331A "㌚" Square Kuruzeiro Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌚
U+331A "㌚" Square Kuruzeiro is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph, specifically classified as a squared katakana abbreviation that represents the word "Kuruzeiro" (クロセイロ). This character is part of the "CJK Compatibility" block, designed for vertical text layout in Japanese typography to condense multi-character loanwords or foreign names into a single square-shaped glyph. It derives from the Portuguese or Spanish term "Cruzeiro," likely referring to the Brazilian currency or the Southern Cross constellation, and is used in contexts like historical financial documents or astronomical references within Japanese writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+331A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Kuruzeiro |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Kuruzeiro |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ク" U+30AF Katakana Letter Ku "ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru "ゼ" U+30BC Katakana Letter Ze "イ" U+30A4 Katakana Letter I "ロ" U+30ED Katakana Letter Ro |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x331A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000331A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u331a |