U+3340 "㍀" Square Pondo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㍀
U+3340 "㍀" Square Pondo is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the word "pondo," a Japanese loanword derived from the Portuguese "ponto" meaning "point." It is part of a set of squared katakana abbreviations used in East Asian text processing, particularly for archaic or specialized measurements and terms, though this specific square is rarely used in modern contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3340 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Pondo |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Pondo |
| 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 "ン" U+30F3 Katakana Letter N "ド" U+30C9 Katakana Letter Do |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3340 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003340 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3340 |