U+3395 "㎕" Square Mu L Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㎕
U+3395 "㎕" Square Mu L is a compatibility ideograph that represents the unit of volume known as the microliter, formed by combining the Greek letter mu (μ), which stands for the metric prefix micro (one millionth), with the letter L for liter into a single square glyph. It is part of the CJK Compatibility block in Unicode, originally included to preserve the precomposed form used in East Asian text and legacy encoding standards, such as those found in Japanese industrial and scientific contexts. This character allows for the compact representation of the unit microliter without relying on separate character spacing or superscripts, though modern usage often favors the sequence of individual characters like "μL" or "μl".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3395 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Mu L |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Mu L |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "μ" U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu "ℓ" U+2113 Script Small L |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㎕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㎕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8E 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3395 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003395 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3395 |
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 | "μ" U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "μ" U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
| 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 |