U+33C0 "㏀" Square K Ohm Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏀
U+33C0 "㏀" Square K Ohm is a single precomposed CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the electrical unit "kilo-ohm" in a compact symbolic form, intended for use in East Asian text environments where a square-shaped glyph is preferred over the standard roman character sequence "kΩ". It falls within the CJK Compatibility block, which encodes various symbols and abbreviations derived from legacy character sets, and it is primarily utilized in technical or engineering contexts within Japanese, Chinese, and Korean typography to signify a resistance value of one thousand ohms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33C0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square K Ohm |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared K Ohm |
| 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 "Ω" U+03A9 Greek Capital Letter Omega |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33C0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033C0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33c0 |
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 "ω" U+03C9 Greek Small Letter Omega |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K "ω" U+03C9 Greek Small Letter Omega |
| 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 |