U+331C "㌜" Square Keesu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌜
U+331C "㌜" Square Keesu is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph specifically classified as a square Katakana abbreviation, representing the word "keesu" (ケース), which is the Japanese loanword for "case" (as in a suitcase or container). This character belongs to the CJK Compatibility block, where it was encoded to map pre-composed square forms from legacy Japanese character sets, such as those used in early computing or telecommunication systems. Visually, it appears as a compact, equally sized grouping of Katakana characters "ケ" (ke) and "ース" (su and long vowel marker) arranged into a single, square typographic space, intended for compatibility and display in vertical text or limited-width contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+331C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Keesu |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Keesu |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ケ" U+30B1 Katakana Letter Ke "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark "ス" U+30B9 Katakana Letter Su |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x331C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000331C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u331c |