U+33B3 "㎳" Square Ms Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㎳
U+33B3 "㎳" Square Ms is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the unit of time "milliseconds" in a square or tate-chu-yoko format, where the letters "m" (for milli) and "s" (for seconds) are combined into a single glyph for compact horizontal display in East Asian text. It is part of the CJK Compatibility block in Unicode, originally encoded to match pre-existing character sets used in Japanese industrial standards, allowing for consistent representation of common abbreviations in contexts like technical documentation or user interfaces.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33B3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Ms |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Ms |
| 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 "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㎳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㎳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8E 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33B3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033B3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33b3 |
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 "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M "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 |