U+3388 "㎈" Square Cal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㎈
U+3388 "㎈" Square Cal is a precomposed CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the unit "calorie" in a compact square form, commonly used in East Asian typography to fit within grid-based text or to denote a measurement symbol clearly in technical or scientific contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3388 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Cal |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Cal |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㎈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㎈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8E 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3388 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003388 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3388 |