U+33B8 "㎸" Square Kv Unicode Character

U+33B8 "㎸" Square Kv is a compatibility ideograph representing the unit "kilovolt" in a single square CJK character form, primarily intended for East Asian typographic contexts where space efficiency is valued. It encodes the combination of the metric prefix "k" for kilo and the unit symbol "V" for volt, standardized within the CJK Compatibility block of Unicode to match pre-existing character sets. This character is not commonly used in modern technical writing but may appear in legacy systems or specialized displays requiring compact representation of electrical units.

General Properties

Code Point	U+33B8
Version Added	1.1
Name	Square Kv
Unicode 1.0 Name	Squared Kv
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 "V" U+0056 Latin Capital Letter V

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㎸
HTML Hex Encoding	㎸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x8E 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x33B8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000033B8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u33b8

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	"k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K "v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V
NFKC Simple Casefold	"k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K "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