U+3353 "㍓" Square Rupii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㍓
U+3353 "㍓" Square Rupii is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph, specifically a precomposed square character that represents the Japanese word "rupii" (ルピー), which is the Japanese transliteration of the Indian currency unit "rupee." It belongs to the "CJK Compatibility" block, originally encoded for compatibility with older East Asian character sets, and is typically used in vertical text layouts or narrow contexts where a monospaced presentation of the two Katakana syllables is needed. This character is not commonly used in modern digital text but remains part of the Unicode standard to support legacy systems and specialized typographic needs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3353 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Rupii |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Rupii |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru "ピ" U+30D4 Katakana Letter Pi "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3353 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003353 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3353 |