U+332E "㌮" Square Piasutoru Unicode Character
U+332E "㌮" Square Piasutoru is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the Japanese katakana loanword "ピアストル" (piasutoru), which itself is derived from the French "piastre" and refers to a historical currency unit, the piastre. This character belongs to the "CJK Compatibility" block, specifically the subset of "Square Katakana" forms intended to encode phonetically transcribed Western loanwords in a single glyph, often used in vertical text or older computing systems for compact representation. Despite its origin in currency terminology, its modern usage is rare, largely confined to archival or specialized digital text contexts where such precomposed square characters were once necessary for compatibility with certain Japanese character encodings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+332E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Piasutoru |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Piasutoru |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ピ" U+30D4 Katakana Letter Pi "ア" U+30A2 Katakana Letter A "ス" U+30B9 Katakana Letter Su "ト" U+30C8 Katakana Letter To "ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x332E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000332E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u332e |