U+338A "㎊" Square Pf Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㎊
U+338A "㎊" Square Pf is a precomposed CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph representing the unit "picofarad," a term used in electronics to denote one trillionth of a farad, which is a standard measure of capacitance. This single character was created as a square-form typographic convenience, encapsulated in a two-kanji-width space for vertical and horizontal text alignment in East Asian scripts, primarily Japanese. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility block, designed to maintain compatibility with older legacy character sets that treated such unit abbreviations as atomic glyphs, and it generally represents the same meaning as the two separate characters "p" and "F" written together.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+338A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Pf |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Pf |
| 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 "F" U+0046 Latin Capital Letter F |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㎊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㎊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8E 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x338A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000338A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u338a |
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 "f" U+0066 Latin Small Letter F |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "p" U+0070 Latin Small Letter P "f" U+0066 Latin Small Letter F |
| 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 |