U+3376 "㍶" Square Pc Unicode Character

U+3376 "㍶" Square Pc is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents a squared, ideographic version of the phrase "PC," which stands for "personal computer." This character belongs to the "CJK Compatibility" block, which encodes glyphs that were originally included for compatibility with earlier character encoding standards used in East Asian text processing. The square format mimics the appearance of a single wide glyph, commonly used in Japanese typography to fit two fullwidth characters into a single square space for compact labeling or signage. Despite its appearance, it should not be confused with standard CJK Unified Ideographs, as it is specifically a compatibility character intended for legacy use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+3376
Version Added	1.1
Name	Square Pc
Block	CJK Compatibility
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Square
Decomposition Mapping	"p" U+0070 Latin Small Letter P "c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㍶
HTML Hex Encoding	㍶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x8D 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x3376
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00003376
C/C++/Java Escape	\u3376

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	"p" U+0070 Latin Small Letter P "c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C
NFKC Simple Casefold	"p" U+0070 Latin Small Letter P "c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C
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