U+33FF "㏿" Square Gal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㏿
U+33FF "㏿" Square Gal is a CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the unit of volume measurement known as the "gal," which is an abbreviation for gallon, encoded as a single square glyph (㏿) for use in East Asian text, particularly in contexts where units are traditionally written enclosed in a square format. This character is part of the CJK Compatibility block, which was designed to preserve the visual appearance of legacy character sets that combined multiple letters or symbols into one cell, ensuring consistent display in environments like older Japanese or Chinese computer systems. It specifically encodes the unit "gal" rather than the full word "gallon," allowing for compact representation in technical or measurement contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+33FF |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Square Gal |
| Block | CJK Compatibility |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "g" U+0067 Latin Small Letter G "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A "l" U+006C Latin Small Letter L |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㏿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㏿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x33FF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000033FF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u33ff |