U+33A8 "㎨" Square M over S Squared Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㎨
U+33A8 "㎨" Square M over S Squared is a precomposed CJK compatibility ideograph used to represent the unit of acceleration, meters per second squared (m/s²), in a single square character form. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility block and was included to facilitate compatibility with older East Asian character encodings where such composite units are commonly required for compact text representation. This symbol allows for the efficient encoding of the scientific unit without needing to separately combine an uppercase M, a slash, and an uppercase S with a superscript 2, simplifying typographic rendering in certain legacy systems and documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33A8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square M over S Squared |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared M over S Squared |
| 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 "∕" U+2215 Division Slash "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S "²" U+00B2 Superscript Two |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㎨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㎨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8E 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33a8 |