U+337E "㍾" Square Era Name Meizi Unicode Character

U+337E "㍾" Square Era Name Meizi is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that encodes a squared form of the Japanese era name "Meiji," which corresponds to the reign of Emperor Meiji from 1868 to 1912. This character was included in Unicode primarily for compatibility with legacy East Asian text encodings where era names were often displayed in a single square block for typesetting convenience, such as in vertical text or on calendars and official documents. In modern usage, it represents a typographic shorthand for the Meiji period, allowing writers and systems to compactly reference that historical era without spelling it out in full kanji.