U+332B "㌫" Square Paasento Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+332B "㌫" Square Paasento is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph known as a "squared katakana" glyph representing the Japanese word "pāsento," meaning "percent." This character was encoded as part of the Unicode standard primarily for compatibility with pre-existing East Asian character sets, allowing the term "percent" to be displayed in a compact, square-shaped form often used in vertical text or for aesthetic consistency in signage, advertising, and digital typography in Japanese contexts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+332B
Name
Square Paasento
Unicode 1.0 Name
Squared Paasento
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
㌫
HTML Hex Encoding
㌫
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE3 0x8C 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding
0x332B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000332B
C/C++/Java Escape
\u332b
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Katakana