U+3322 "㌢" Square Senti Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌢
U+3322 "㌢" Square Senti is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the metric prefix "centi," meaning one hundredth, and is used in Japanese typography as a single square character to denote the unit of measurement for length, specifically the centimeter. This character is part of a set of square-form symbols that encode common metric units and abbreviations in a compact, East Asian writing system style, allowing for consistent vertical or horizontal text layout. It is often found in technical or scientific Japanese documents, where it serves as a visual shorthand for "centimeter" without requiring the full script or Latin alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3322 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Senti |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Senti |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "セ" U+30BB Katakana Letter Se "ン" U+30F3 Katakana Letter N "チ" U+30C1 Katakana Letter Ti |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3322 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003322 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3322 |