U+331B "㌛" Square Kuroone Unicode Character
U+331B "㌛" Square Kuroone is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents a squared version of the Japanese word "kuroone," which typically refers to the black "one" or a black-colored item, often associated with the number one or a specific brand or term in Japanese contexts. This character belongs to the "CJK Compatibility" block in Unicode, which includes precomposed forms of text used for vertical writing or to match the width of other characters, and it is primarily utilized in East Asian typography to ensure proper spacing and alignment in digital text. The symbol itself is a combination of the kanji for "kuro" (black) and the katakana or numeral for "one," but its usage is largely limited to specialized or historical encoding scenarios rather than everyday communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+331B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Kuroone |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Kuroone |
| 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 "ロ" U+30ED Katakana Letter Ro "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark "ネ" U+30CD Katakana Letter Ne |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x331B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000331B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u331b |