U+332D "㌭" Square Baareru Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌭
U+332D "㌭" Square Baareru is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the Japanese word "バーレル" (baareru), which is the transliteration of the English word "barrel" and refers to a unit of volume, typically used for measuring liquids like oil or alcoholic beverages. This character belongs to the "CJK Compatibility" block, a collection of precomposed square-form glyphs designed to represent common corporate or unit names in a single character space for legacy text systems. Its usage is rare in modern digital communication, as most systems now prefer standard text input, but it persists in historical documents and certain East Asian typographic contexts where compact representation of loanwords is desired.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+332D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Baareru |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Baareru |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "バ" U+30D0 Katakana Letter Ba "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark "レ" U+30EC Katakana Letter Re "ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x332D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000332D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u332d |