U+331E "㌞" Square Koopo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌞
U+331E "㌞" Square Koopo is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph representing the Japanese word "kōpō" (公報), which translates to "official bulletin" or "public notice" in English, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the CJK Compatibility block specifically to support legacy character sets and text processing for Japanese square katakana abbreviations commonly used in signage, forms, and older computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+331E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Koopo |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Koopo |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "コ" U+30B3 Katakana Letter Ko "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark "ポ" U+30DD Katakana Letter Po |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x331E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000331E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u331e |