U+332B "㌫" Square Paasento Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌫
U+332B "㌫" Square Paasento is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph known as a "squared katakana" glyph representing the Japanese word "pāsento," meaning "percent." This character was encoded as part of the Unicode standard primarily for compatibility with pre-existing East Asian character sets, allowing the term "percent" to be displayed in a compact, square-shaped form often used in vertical text or for aesthetic consistency in signage, advertising, and digital typography in Japanese contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+332B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Paasento |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Paasento |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "パ" U+30D1 Katakana Letter Pa "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark "セ" U+30BB Katakana Letter Se "ン" U+30F3 Katakana Letter N "ト" U+30C8 Katakana Letter To |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x332B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000332B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u332b |