U+3389 "㎉" Square Kcal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㎉
U+3389 "㎉" Square Kcal is a compatibility CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph that represents the unit "kilocalorie", specifically designed for use in East Asian text environments where a square, or tate-chu-yoko, layout is preferred. It encodes the abbreviation "kcal" as a single composite glyph, allowing it to fit neatly within a fixed-width character cell common in older computer systems and typewriters. While it is not typically used in modern digital text, it remains part of Unicode for backward compatibility with legacy character sets like JIS X 0208, where such squared Latin abbreviations for units of measurement were standardized.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3389 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Kcal |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Kcal |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K "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 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3389 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003389 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3389 |