U+3323 "㌣" Square Sento Unicode Character
U+3323 "㌣" Square Sento is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the Japanese word "sento," typically used as an abbreviation or a square-form symbol for "sen" (a unit of currency) and "to" (meaning "ten" or "ten times"), often encountered in historical or specialized contexts such as pricing or measurements in Japanese text. This character belongs to the "CJK Compatibility" block in Unicode, designed to encode legacy character forms used in Japanese computing and typography, where it appears as a single square glyph rather than separate characters. Its usage is primarily a relic of older systems or specific fonts, and it is not commonly employed in modern everyday writing, but it remains significant for preserving textual accuracy in digital representations of historical documents or certain East Asian media.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3323 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Sento |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Sento |
| 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 "ト" U+30C8 Katakana Letter To |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3323 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003323 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3323 |