U+333C "㌼" Square Beeta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌼
U+333C "㌼" Square Beeta is part of the CJK Compatibility block, specifically a precomposed Korean syllable intended for East Asian text environments, representing the sound "pita" or "beta" as a square-format abbreviation. Originally encoded for compatibility with older character sets used in Japanese and Korean computing, it serves as a single glyph for the term "beeta" (베타), the Korean pronunciation of the Greek letter beta, often employed in academic or technical contexts. This character consolidates multiple letters into one visual unit, aiding in consistent typographic alignment in legacy systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+333C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Beeta |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Beeta |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ベ" U+30D9 Katakana Letter Be "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark "タ" U+30BF Katakana Letter Ta |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x333C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000333C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u333c |