U+3350 "㍐" Square Yuan Unicode Character
U+3350 "㍐" Square Yuan is a precomposed CJK compatibility ideograph found within the CJK Compatibility block, specifically representing the word "yuan" enclosed in a square form, which is used in East Asian typography to denote a unit of currency or measurement, such as the Chinese yuan or Japanese yen. This character is part of a set of squared Latin and CJK abbreviations that were originally developed for compatibility with older character encodings and legacy text layouts, allowing for compact display of common terms like currency names in contexts such as financial documents or signage. Despite its structured appearance, it is not typically used in modern digital text, as contemporary systems prefer full-width characters or standard formatting for such abbreviations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3350 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Yuan |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Yuan |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ユ" U+30E6 Katakana Letter Yu "ア" U+30A2 Katakana Letter A "ン" U+30F3 Katakana Letter N |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3350 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003350 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3350 |