U+332C "㌬" Square Paatu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌬
U+332C "㌬" Square Paatu is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the Japanese word "paatu," which is itself a loanword derived from the English word "party," abbreviated and rendered in the square (katakana squared) form used in legacy encoding standards. This specific character falls within the CJK Compatibility block of Unicode, a section designed to preserve compatibility with older character sets, and it is typically used in contexts where text might need to display the squared abbreviation for a distinct phonetic representation rather than the full standard katakana spelling.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+332C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Paatu |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Paatu |
| 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 "ツ" U+30C4 Katakana Letter Tu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x332C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000332C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u332c |