U+338E "㎎" Square Mg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㎎
U+338E "㎎" Square Mg is a single composite character representing the square abbreviation for the metric unit milligram, combining the Latin letters "m" and "g" into one glyph for compact typographic use. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility block, which was designed to support legacy East Asian character sets that encode commonly used unit abbreviations as individual characters. This character allows for consistent, space-saving representation of "mg" in contexts like scientific notation, labeling, or text where precise alignment or font compatibility is needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+338E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Mg |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Mg |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M "g" U+0067 Latin Small Letter G |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㎎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㎎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8E 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x338E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000338E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u338e |
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 | "m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M "g" U+0067 Latin Small Letter G |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M "g" U+0067 Latin Small Letter G |
| 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 |