U+3320 "㌠" Square Santiimu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌠
U+3320 "㌠" Square Santiimu is a CJK compatibility ideograph representing the Japanese word "santiimu," which is a loanword from English meaning "centimeter." This character is part of the "CJK Compatibility" block, designed to encode precomposed square forms of katakana-based abbreviations that were used in East Asian typography for compactness, particularly in legacy systems and older documents. It visually combines the katakana syllables "sa" (サ), "n" (ン), "chi" (チ), "i" (イ), "mu" (ム), and "u" (ウ), arranged within a single square-width character space, and is primarily used for its historical relevance in text rendering rather than for modern standardized writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3320 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Santiimu |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Santiimu |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "サ" U+30B5 Katakana Letter Sa "ン" U+30F3 Katakana Letter N "チ" U+30C1 Katakana Letter Ti "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark "ム" U+30E0 Katakana Letter Mu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3320 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003320 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3320 |