U+3331 "㌱" Square Biru Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌱
U+3331 "㌱" Square Biru is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that forms part of a block of square-format characters used primarily in Japanese typography to represent abbreviated units or loanwords. This particular character encodes the katakana-based square "Biru," which is a shorthand for the English word "building" and is commonly found in Japanese signage and addresses to denote a building's name or designation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3331 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Biru |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Biru |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ビ" U+30D3 Katakana Letter Bi "ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3331 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003331 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3331 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ビ" U+30D3 Katakana Letter Bi "ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ビ" U+30D3 Katakana Letter Bi "ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru |
| Script | Katakana |
| Script Extensions | Katakana |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Transformed Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Katakana |
| Sentence Break | Other |