U+33DC "㏜" Square Sv Unicode Character
U+33DC "㏜" Square Sv is a CJK Compatibility Ideograph representing the abbreviation for the Sverdrup unit, a measure of volume transport commonly used in oceanography to quantify the flow of ocean currents. This character is encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the CJK Compatibility block, which includes symbols and abbreviations from East Asian scripts that were originally defined for compatibility with earlier character sets. The "Sv" abbreviation stands for Sverdrup, named after the Norwegian oceanographer Harald Sverdrup, and one Sverdrup equals one million cubic meters per second. The square glyph format encloses the letters "Sv" within a rectangular shape, reflecting its use in technical and scientific contexts to denote this specific unit of measurement.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33DC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Square Sv |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Squared Sv |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "S" U+0053 Latin Capital Letter S "v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33dc |
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 | "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S "v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S "v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V |
| 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 |