U+3325 "㌥" Square Desi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌥
U+3325 "㌥" Square Desi is a precomposed CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the Japanese word "デシ" (deshi), which is a transliteration of the metric prefix "deci," meaning one tenth, and is used in the context of measurement units such as deciliter or decimeter, formed as a square or wide-form character for compatibility with older East Asian text encodings where such abbreviations appeared as single glyphs in standard widths.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3325 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Desi |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Desi |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "デ" U+30C7 Katakana Letter De "シ" U+30B7 Katakana Letter Si |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3325 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003325 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3325 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "デ" U+30C7 Katakana Letter De "シ" U+30B7 Katakana Letter Si |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "デ" U+30C7 Katakana Letter De "シ" U+30B7 Katakana Letter Si |
| Script | Katakana |
| Script Extensions | Katakana |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Transformed Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Katakana |
| Sentence Break | Other |