U+3398 "㎘" Square Kl Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㎘
U+3398 "㎘" Square Kl is a precomposed CJK Compatibility Ideograph that represents the unit of measurement "kiloliter," abbreviated as "kL" or "Kl" in a square format. It was included in Unicode to maintain compatibility with legacy East Asian character sets, such as those used in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean text, where such squared unit symbols were commonly printed as single characters. This character specifically denotes 1,000 liters and is part of a larger collection of squared Latin and Greek unit abbreviations, like "㍍" for meter or "㌢" for centimeter, designed for compact display in contexts like labels, charts, or technical documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3398 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Kl |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Kl |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K "ℓ" U+2113 Script Small L |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㎘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㎘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8E 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3398 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003398 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3398 |
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 | "k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K "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 |