U+3339 "㌹" Square Herutu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌹
U+3339 "㌹" Square Herutu is a CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the Japanese word "herutu," an abbreviation for the English word "helts" or a shift of "health," and is part of a set of square-format characters used to fit Latin-derived terms into a monospaced East Asian text grid. Specifically, it combines the katakana syllables "he" (ヘ), "ru" (ル), and "tu" (ツ) into a single square block, historically appearing in legacy Japanese computer systems like the JIS X 0208 standard to encode common foreign loanwords compactly for displays with fixed-width character cells. Today, it is primarily relevant for text encoding compatibility rather than active everyday use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3339 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Herutu |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Herutu |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ヘ" U+30D8 Katakana Letter He "ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru "ツ" U+30C4 Katakana Letter Tu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3339 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003339 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3339 |