U+33BF "㎿" Square Mw Mega Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㎿
U+33BF "㎿" Square Mw Mega is a precomposed CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the unit "megawatt," a standard measure of power equal to one million watts, often used in electrical engineering and energy production contexts. This character was encoded in the Unicode standard to facilitate compatibility with legacy East Asian character sets, where such square-form unit symbols were commonly employed in Japanese and Chinese technical texts. Its inclusion allows for precise typographic representation of the abbreviation "MW" enclosed within a single character space, preserving the intended formatting of older documents and databases without requiring separate Latin letters or spacing adjustments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33BF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Mw Mega |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Mw Mega |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "M" U+004D Latin Capital Letter M "W" U+0057 Latin Capital Letter W |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㎿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㎿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8E 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33BF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033BF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33bf |
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 |