U+333D "㌽" Square Pointo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㌽
U+333D "㌽" Square Pointo is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents a squared or compact form of the katakana word for point, specifically denoting a unit of measurement equal to one seventy second of an inch or a typographic point. This character is part of a set of square katakana expressions used in Japanese writing to conserve space or provide a distinct visual style, often appearing in older or specialized contexts such as typography, printing, or computer text encoding for legacy systems. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that historical and technical documents can accurately represent this specialized symbol without loss of meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+333D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Pointo |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Pointo |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ポ" U+30DD Katakana Letter Po "イ" U+30A4 Katakana Letter I "ン" U+30F3 Katakana Letter N "ト" U+30C8 Katakana Letter To |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㌽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㌽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8C 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x333D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000333D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u333d |