U+33AD "㎭" Square Rad Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㎭
U+33AD "㎭" Square Rad is a CJK Compatibility Ideograph representing the square of the radian, an SI unit of angular measure. It is primarily used in East Asian typography, particularly in Japanese and Chinese texts, where it serves as a compact, single-character representation for the unit "rad²" in scientific or mathematical contexts. This character belongs to the "CJK Compatibility" block, which was designed to encode precomposed forms found in legacy character sets, allowing for consistent display of specialized symbols in technical documentation and formulas.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33AD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Rad |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Rad |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "r" U+0072 Latin Small Letter R "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A "d" U+0064 Latin Small Letter D |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㎭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㎭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8E 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33AD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033AD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33ad |