U+33BD "㎽" Square Mw Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㎽
U+33BD "㎽" Square Mw is a precomposed CJK compatibility ideograph representing the unit "megawatt," abbreviated as Mw, used to denote one million watts of power. It falls within the Unicode block "CJK Compatibility" and is designed for vertical text layout or compatibility with legacy East Asian character encodings, where such squared unit symbols are commonly employed for concise representation in technical and engineering contexts. This character is not typically used in modern standard Unicode text but remains available for interoperability with older systems and documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33BD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Mw |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Mw |
| 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 "W" U+0057 Latin Capital Letter W |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㎽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㎽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8E 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33BD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033BD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33bd |
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 "w" U+0077 Latin Small Letter W |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M "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 |