U+334B "㍋" Square Mega Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

㍋

U+334B "㍋" Square Mega is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the word "megabyte" in Japanese, specifically written as the square form of the katakana characters for "me" (メ), "ga" (ガ), "ba" (バ), and "i" (イ) combined into a single square glyph. This character is part of the "CJK Compatibility" block, which includes precomposed versions of terms commonly used in East Asian writing, particularly for measurements, symbols, or proprietary names. The "square" designation refers to its typical appearance as a compact, fixed-width symbol, and it was originally encoded to maintain compatibility with legacy character sets like Japanese JIS X 0208. While its primary use is in Japanese text for denoting the unit of data storage, it is also included in Unicode to ensure proper display and interchange across different systems and fonts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+334B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Square Mega
Unicode 1.0 Name	Squared Mega
Block	CJK Compatibility
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Square
Decomposition Mapping	"メ" U+30E1 Katakana Letter Me "ガ" U+30AC Katakana Letter Ga

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㍋
HTML Hex Encoding	㍋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x8D 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x334B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000334B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u334b

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	"メ" U+30E1 Katakana Letter Me "ガ" U+30AC Katakana Letter Ga
NFKC Simple Casefold	"メ" U+30E1 Katakana Letter Me "ガ" U+30AC Katakana Letter Ga
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