U+33BC "㎼" Square Mu W Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㎼
U+33BC "㎼" Square Mu W is a single ideographic character that represents the combined units of mu and W, denoting microwatts in scientific and engineering contexts. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility block in Unicode, where such precomposed forms were created for compatibility with older East Asian character encodings. This character is used as a squared or compound symbol to convey the measurement of microwatts (one millionth of a watt) in a compact manner, often appearing in technical documentation or legacy digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33BC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Mu W |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Mu W |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "μ" U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu "W" U+0057 Latin Capital Letter W |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㎼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㎼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8E 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33BC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33bc |
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 | "μ" U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu "w" U+0077 Latin Small Letter W |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "μ" U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu "w" U+0077 Latin Small Letter W |
| 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 |