U+33B0 "㎰" Square Ps Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㎰
U+33B0 "㎰" Square Ps is a CJK Compatibility Ideograph that represents the unit "ps" which stands for picosecond, a trillionth of a second, and is used in fields like physics, engineering, and computing to denote extremely short time intervals. This character is encoded in the Unicode block "CJK Compatibility" and is designed for vertical text layout and compatibility with older East Asian character sets, allowing it to appear as a single square glyph rather than as separate letters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33B0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Ps |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Ps |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "p" U+0070 Latin Small Letter P "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㎰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㎰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8E 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33B0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33b0 |
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 | "p" U+0070 Latin Small Letter P "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "p" U+0070 Latin Small Letter P "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S |
| 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 |