U+3396 "㎖" Square Ml Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㎖
U+3396 "㎖" Square Ml is a precomposed CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the unit of volume "milliliter" by combining the letters M and L into a single square symbol. It was included in Unicode primarily for compatibility with older East Asian character encodings where such squared unit abbreviations were commonly used in vertical text layouts and limited character sets. This character allows for the compact representation of "milliliter" in contexts such as labeling, technical documentation, and on-screen displays, though its use has largely been superseded by standard Latin script sequences and specialized unit symbols in modern digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3396 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Ml |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Ml |
| 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 "ℓ" U+2113 Script Small L |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㎖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㎖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8E 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3396 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003396 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3396 |
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 "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M "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 |