U+33CB "㏋" Square Hp Unicode Character

U+33CB "㏋" Square Hp is a precomposed CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the abbreviation "HP" enclosed within a square, primarily used as a unit symbol for horsepower in East Asian text environments, such as on product labels or in technical documentation. This character is part of the Unicode block known as CJK Compatibility, which contains many such squared Latin abbreviations for ease of typographic alignment with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters. In digital contexts, it allows the symbol for horsepower to occupy a single character width, maintaining visual consistency alongside standard East Asian script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+33CB
Version Added	1.1
Name	Square Hp
Unicode 1.0 Name	Squared Hp
Block	CJK Compatibility
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Square
Decomposition Mapping	"H" U+0048 Latin Capital Letter H "P" U+0050 Latin Capital Letter P

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㏋
HTML Hex Encoding	㏋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x8F 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x33CB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000033CB
C/C++/Java Escape	\u33cb

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	"h" U+0068 Latin Small Letter H "p" U+0070 Latin Small Letter P
NFKC Simple Casefold	"h" U+0068 Latin Small Letter H "p" U+0070 Latin Small Letter P
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