U+334E "㍎" Square Yaado Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㍎
U+334E "㍎" Square Yaado is a CJK Compatibility Ideograph representing a squared version of the Japanese word "yādo" (ヤード), which is the Japanese loanword for the imperial unit of length "yard." This character is part of a set of precomposed square forms used in East Asian typography to condense common abbreviations or measurement terms into a single, monospaced glyph, often for use in vertical text or tight layouts. It does not have a separate meaning from the standard word but provides a compact, graphically unified way to write "yard" in Japanese contexts without using separate kana characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+334E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Yaado |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Yaado |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ヤ" U+30E4 Katakana Letter Ya "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark "ド" U+30C9 Katakana Letter Do |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x334E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000334E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u334e |