U+33C3 "㏃" Square Bq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏃
U+33C3 "㏃" Square Bq is a compatibility ideograph used in East Asian text, specifically in Japanese and Chinese contexts, to represent the unit "becquerel" (Bq) in a square-shaped format for concise display, often in technical or scientific notations. This character encodes the shorthand notation for the SI derived unit of radioactivity, named after physicist Henri Becquerel, and resides in the CJK Compatibility block, serving as a typographical convenience for legacy systems or specialized fonts where standard unit abbreviations may need to be compactly rendered in a single character space.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33C3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Bq |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Bq |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "B" U+0042 Latin Capital Letter B "q" U+0071 Latin Small Letter Q |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33C3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033C3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33c3 |
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 | "b" U+0062 Latin Small Letter B "q" U+0071 Latin Small Letter Q |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "b" U+0062 Latin Small Letter B "q" U+0071 Latin Small Letter Q |
| 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 |