U+3354 "㍔" Square Ruuburu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㍔
U+3354 "㍔" Square Ruuburu is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the Japanese word "Ruuburu," a transliteration of the English word "rubber." It is encoded in the "CJK Compatibility" block and is designed for vertical text layouts or specific typographic contexts, often used to denote a unit of measurement such as a square rubber or a similar material in technical or commercial documents. This character is part of a set of squared Katakana abbreviations that were historically used in East Asian text processing to fit a single character width, reflecting the need for compact representation of loanwords in Japanese writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3354 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Ruuburu |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Ruuburu |
| 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 "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark "ブ" U+30D6 Katakana Letter Bu "ル" U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3354 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003354 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3354 |