U+338B "㎋" Square Nf Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㎋
U+338B "㎋" Square Nf is a precomposed CJK compatibility ideograph representing the square of the Latin letters "N" and "F," which is used as an abbreviation for the unit "nanofarad" in electrical engineering and physics, indicating a capacitance of one billionth of a farad. This character is part of the CJK Compatibility block in Unicode and was included primarily to support legacy text encoding systems in East Asian computing, where such squared unit symbols were commonly represented as single glyphs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+338B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Nf |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Nf |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "n" U+006E Latin Small Letter N "F" U+0046 Latin Capital Letter F |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㎋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㎋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8E 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x338B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000338B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u338b |
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 | "n" U+006E Latin Small Letter N "f" U+0066 Latin Small Letter F |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "n" U+006E Latin Small Letter N "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 |