U+332F "㌯" Square Pikuru Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌯
U+332F "㌯" Square Pikuru is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph, specifically a precomposed square form of the Japanese word "pikuru," which is a transliteration of the English word "picul" or "pikul," a traditional unit of weight used in East and Southeast Asia, typically equal to about 60 kilograms or 133⅓ pounds. This character belongs to the "CJK Compatibility Ideographs" block and was encoded in Unicode to represent this unit in legacy character sets, allowing for its use in vertical text and older Japanese computing environments where such squaring was standard for representing foreign loanwords.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+332F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Pikuru |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Pikuru |
| 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 "ク" U+30AF Katakana Letter Ku "ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x332F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000332F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u332f |