U+33BE "㎾" Square Kw Unicode Character

U+33BE "㎾" Square Kw is a precomposed CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the unit "kilowatt," abbreviated as "kW," enclosed in a square for compatibility with East Asian text encoding systems where such squared abbreviations are common. This character is part of the CJK Compatibility block, which was designed to maintain round-trip compatibility with older legacy character sets used in Japan, China, and Korea, and it is typically used in contexts where space is limited, such as on electronic displays, measurement instruments, or formatted technical documents. While modern text often simply uses the standard letters "kW," this single character was encoded to preserve the exact appearance and functionality of legacy data.

General Properties

Code Point	U+33BE
Version Added	1.1
Name	Square Kw
Unicode 1.0 Name	Squared Kw
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 "W" U+0057 Latin Capital Letter W

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㎾
HTML Hex Encoding	㎾
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x8E 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x33BE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000033BE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u33be

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 "w" U+0077 Latin Small Letter W
NFKC Simple Casefold	"k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K "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