U+3348 "㍈" Square Mikuron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㍈
U+3348 "㍈" Square Mikuron is a precomposed CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the word "micron" written in Japanese katakana, abbreviated into a single square character as part of a set of units used in East Asian typography. It is found in the CJK Compatibility block and was originally included for compatibility with older character encodings, where it was treated as a single unit for width and alignment. This character corresponds to the standard Japanese abbreviation for the metric unit "micrometer" (one millionth of a meter), though its usage has largely been supplanted by more modern encoding practices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3348 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Mikuron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Mikuron |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ミ" U+30DF Katakana Letter Mi "ク" U+30AF Katakana Letter Ku "ロ" U+30ED Katakana Letter Ro "ン" U+30F3 Katakana Letter N |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3348 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003348 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3348 |