U+337F "㍿" Square Corporation Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㍿
U+337F "㍿" Square Corporation is a single CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographic character that represents the word "kabushiki gaisha," the Japanese term for a joint-stock company or corporation. This character is a typographic ligature or square form that condenses the four kanji characters 株式会社会社 into a single unit, making it a convenient shorthand for corporate names and documentation. It is commonly used in Japan to denote a business entity, similar to how "Inc." or "Ltd." is used in English, and it appears in logos, legal texts, and official company registrations. The character is encoded in the Unicode standard to ensure consistent digital representation across platforms and systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+337F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Corporation |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Four Ideographs Corporation |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "株" U+682A CJK Unified Ideograph-# "式" U+5F0F CJK Unified Ideograph-# "会" U+4F1A CJK Unified Ideograph-# "社" U+793E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㍿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㍿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8D 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x337F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000337F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u337f |