U+333F "㌿" Square Hon Unicode Character

U+333F "㌿" Square Hon is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents a squared form of the Japanese word "hon" (ほん), which commonly means "book" but in this specific square character context is typically used as an abbreviation for "hon" as a counter for long, cylindrical objects like bottles or sticks. This character is part of the CJK Compatibility block in Unicode, originally included to encode legacy Japanese computer encoding standards that used square-shaped symbols to fit multiple characters into a single monospaced cell, often for teletext or kana-based systems. Its appearance combines the Japanese katakana "ホ" (ho) and "ン" (n) into a single square symbol, and it is primarily used in historical or specialized Japanese text processing scenarios rather than in modern everyday writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+333F
Version Added	1.1
Name	Square Hon
Unicode 1.0 Name	Squared Hon
Block	CJK Compatibility
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Square
Decomposition Mapping	"ホ" U+30DB Katakana Letter Ho "ン" U+30F3 Katakana Letter N

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㌿
HTML Hex Encoding	㌿
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x8C 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x333F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000333F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u333f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ホ" U+30DB Katakana Letter Ho "ン" U+30F3 Katakana Letter N
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ホ" U+30DB Katakana Letter Ho "ン" U+30F3 Katakana Letter N
Script	Katakana
Script Extensions	Katakana
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Transformed Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Katakana
Sentence Break	Other