U+337C "㍼" Square Era Name Syouwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㍼
U+337C "㍼" Square Era Name Syouwa is a CJK Compatibility Ideograph that represents the Japanese era name Shōwa (昭和) enclosed within a square, which corresponds to the reign of Emperor Hirohito from 1926 to 1989. This character was included in Unicode as part of a set of square era name symbols used primarily in East Asian typography to compactly denote calendar years or historical periods, such as in official documents, calendars, and digital text. Its encoding helps preserve the distinct visual and semantic role these square characters play in Japanese and Chinese contexts, despite being largely superseded by modern plain text representations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+337C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Era Name Syouwa |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Two Ideographs Era Name Syouwa |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "昭" U+662D CJK Unified Ideograph-# "和" U+548C CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x337C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000337C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u337c |