U+334D "㍍" Square Meetoru Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+334D "㍍" Square Meetoru is a precomposed CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the Japanese word "meetoru," meaning meter, written in the Katakana script. It is part of the CJK Compatibility block, which includes various symbols and abbreviations used in East Asian typography, particularly for representing units of measurement in a single, compact character. This character was included for compatibility with legacy character sets and is used in contexts where space efficiency is important, such as in signage or technical writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+334D
Version Added 1.1
Name Square Meetoru
Unicode 1.0 Name Squared Meetoru
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
"ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark
"ト" U+30C8 Katakana Letter To
"ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㍍
HTML Hex Encoding ㍍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x8D 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0x334D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000334D
C/C++/Java Escape \u334d

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
"ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark
"ト" U+30C8 Katakana Letter To
"ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru
NFKC Simple Casefold "メ" U+30E1 Katakana Letter Me
"ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark
"ト" U+30C8 Katakana Letter To
"ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru
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