U+333A "㌺" Square Pensu Unicode Character
U+333A "㌺" Square Pensu is a specific CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the Japanese word "ペンス" (pensu), which is a transliteration of the English word "pence" (the plural of penny, a unit of currency). This character belongs to the "CJK Compatibility" block in Unicode, where it was encoded to preserve the square-form layout commonly used in Japanese typography for rendering foreign loanwords or measuring units in a monospaced or vertically aligned manner, particularly in older computing and printing systems. The "Square" in its name indicates that it is designed to fit neatly into a fixed-width square cell, making it suitable for use in tables, signs, or any context where uniform character sizing is required, though its usage today is largely historical or specialized.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+333A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Pensu |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Pensu |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ペ" U+30DA Katakana Letter Pe "ン" U+30F3 Katakana Letter N "ス" U+30B9 Katakana Letter Su |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x333A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000333A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u333a |