U+3372 "㍲" Square Da Unicode Character

U+3372 "㍲" Square Da is a CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the square form of the Japanese word "da," which is an abbreviation for "dāsu" or "dā," meaning a dozen, used in contexts like counting units or measurements in East Asian typography. It belongs to the "CJK Compatibility" block, which was designed to encode precomposed squared versions of Latin letters, katakana, and other characters for vertical text or compatibility with older character sets, though its modern use is largely historical or specialized. This specific character is part of a set of squared abbreviations that emulate the appearance of Japanese telegraph or typewriter conventions, and it is distinct from standard Unicode characters due to its fixed width and square layout, intended to maintain consistent spacing in monospaced or grid-based text environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+3372
Version Added	1.1
Name	Square Da
Block	CJK Compatibility
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Square
Decomposition Mapping	"d" U+0064 Latin Small Letter D "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㍲
HTML Hex Encoding	㍲
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x8D 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x3372
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00003372
C/C++/Java Escape	\u3372

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	"d" U+0064 Latin Small Letter D "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A
NFKC Simple Casefold	"d" U+0064 Latin Small Letter D "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other