U+3334 "㌴" Square Bussyeru Unicode Character
U+3334 "㌴" Square Bussyeru is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the phonetically rendered Japanese word "bussyeru," itself a transliteration of the English term "bushel," a unit of volume used primarily for dry goods like grains. This character belongs to the "CJK Compatibility" block, where it is encoded as a squared form combining multiple katakana characters into a single cell, designed for vertical text layouts in East Asian typography. Its inclusion in Unicode serves to preserve legacy encoding from earlier Japanese character sets, where such precomposed squares were used to save space or maintain formatting in older computer systems and printed materials. Though rarely used in modern digital text, it stands as a historical artifact of how foreign measurements were integrated into Japanese writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3334 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Bussyeru |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Bussyeru |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ブ" U+30D6 Katakana Letter Bu "ッ" U+30C3 Katakana Letter Small Tu "シ" U+30B7 Katakana Letter Si "ェ" U+30A7 Katakana Letter Small E "ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3334 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003334 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3334 |