U+339E "㎞" Square Km Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+339E "㎞" Square Km is a precomposed CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) square symbol representing the unit "km" (kilometer) as a single, compact character. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility block of Unicode, which includes specialized glyphs intended for compatibility with legacy character sets used in East Asian text processing. This symbol is typically used in contexts where space is limited, such as on signs, maps, or in technical documentation, to denote distance or measurement in kilometers without requiring two separate letters.

General Properties

Code Point U+339E
Version Added 1.1
Name Square Km
Unicode 1.0 Name Squared Km
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
"m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㎞
HTML Hex Encoding ㎞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x8E 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x339E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000339E
C/C++/Java Escape \u339e

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
"m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M
NFKC Simple Casefold "k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K
"m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M
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