U+33B4 "㎴" Square Pv Unicode Character

U+33B4 "㎴" Square Pv is a CJK compatibility ideograph representing the unit of electric potential, the "picovolt," which is one trillionth of a volt. This character is part of the "Squared Latin Abbreviations" block, designed for compatibility with East Asian text standards where such units are often written as single square symbols. Its primary purpose is to allow digital representation of the unit abbreviation "PV" in a single, precomposed glyph, facilitating consistent typesetting in technical or scientific contexts within CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+33B4
Version Added	1.1
Name	Square Pv
Unicode 1.0 Name	Squared Pv
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 "V" U+0056 Latin Capital Letter V

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㎴
HTML Hex Encoding	㎴
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x8E 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x33B4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000033B4
C/C++/Java Escape	\u33b4

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 "v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V
NFKC Simple Casefold	"p" U+0070 Latin Small Letter P "v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V
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