U+33AA "㎪" Square Kpa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㎪
U+33AA "㎪" Square Kpa is a precomposed CJK compatibility ideograph representing the metric unit "square kilopascal," used primarily in East Asian text systems for space-efficient display of the pressure measurement. This character belongs to the CJK Compatibility block and is intended for vertical text layouts or legacy encoding contexts where a single character substitutes for the two separate characters "k" and "Pa." It simplifies typesetting by occupying one character width, preserving alignment in documents that require consistent monospaced or square character cells, though its use in modern Unicode is largely historical or specialized.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33AA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Kpa |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Kpa |
| 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 "P" U+0050 Latin Capital Letter P "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㎪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㎪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8E 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33AA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33aa |