U+3343 "㍃" Square Maikuro Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㍃
U+3343 "㍃" Square Maikuro is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents a squared form of the Japanese katakana rendering for "maikuro," which is the transliteration of the English word "micro." It is part of the "CJK Compatibility" block, specifically designed for compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, and is often used in contexts like representing the metric prefix "micro-" in compact text or signage, such as for units of measurement. Unlike standard CJK Unified Ideographs, this character occupies a single square designed to fit within a fixed-width text grid, making it a typographic convenience rather than a traditional logograph.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3343 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Maikuro |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Maikuro |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "マ" U+30DE Katakana Letter Ma "イ" U+30A4 Katakana Letter I "ク" U+30AF Katakana Letter Ku "ロ" U+30ED Katakana Letter Ro |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3343 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003343 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3343 |