U+33C2 "㏂" Square Am Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏂
U+33C2 "㏂" Square Am is a CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the abbreviation "AM" for "ante meridiem," meaning before noon, used primarily in timekeeping contexts within East Asian scripts. It was included in the Unicode standard as part of the CJK Compatibility block to maintain compatibility with legacy character encodings such as CNS 11643 and earlier Japanese industrial standards, where it appears as a single square glyph combining the letters A and M. Despite its technical encoding, this character has largely fallen out of common modern use in digital text, as standard Latin letter sequences are now preferred for expressing AM and PM.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33C2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Am |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Am |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A "." U+002E Full Stop "m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M "." U+002E Full Stop |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33C2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033C2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33c2 |