U+33A5 "㎥" Square M Cubed Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㎥
U+33A5 "㎥" Square M Cubed is a precomposed CJK compatibility ideograph representing the unit of volume, the cubic meter, where the standard "m" and the superscript "3" are combined into a single square-shaped character for simplified display in East Asian text environments. This character was included in Unicode primarily to maintain compatibility with legacy character sets used in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean computing systems, where such precomposed forms were common in terminal and printer fonts. It occupies a position in the CJK Compatibility block and is not intended for general scientific use, where the separate characters "m" and "³" are typically preferred.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33A5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square M Cubed |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared M Cubed |
| 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 "³" U+00B3 Superscript Three |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㎥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㎥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8E 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33A5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033A5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33a5 |
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 "3" U+0033 Digit Three |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M "3" U+0033 Digit Three |
| 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 |