U+3355 "㍕" Square Remu Unicode Character

U+3355 "㍕" Square Remu is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the Japanese unit of measurement "remu" (a phonetic transcription of "rehm," referring to a unit of electrical resistance) enclosed within a square layout, specifically designed for horizontal text presentation in East Asian typography. It is part of the "CJK Compatibility" block in Unicode, which includes precomposed characters that were created to facilitate text layout in older encoding standards, such as Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS), where units or abbreviations were often placed in a fixed-width square to align with monospaced grids. While this character is not commonly used in modern computing, it remains supported for legacy document compatibility and historical text representation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+3355
Version Added	1.1
Name	Square Remu
Unicode 1.0 Name	Squared Remu
Block	CJK Compatibility
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Square
Decomposition Mapping	"レ" U+30EC Katakana Letter Re "ム" U+30E0 Katakana Letter Mu

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㍕
HTML Hex Encoding	㍕
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x8D 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0x3355
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00003355
C/C++/Java Escape	\u3355

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	"レ" U+30EC Katakana Letter Re "ム" U+30E0 Katakana Letter Mu
NFKC Simple Casefold	"レ" U+30EC Katakana Letter Re "ム" U+30E0 Katakana Letter Mu
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