What ㏅ means
It means candela, a unit for light emitted in one direction.
Here, cd means candela; ㏅ puts those letters inside a square cell, so it changes the layout, not the unit.
Some East Asian character sets represented scientific unit abbreviations in square, ideograph-sized cells. Unicode keeps forms like this as compatibility characters—a bridge for converting text from those older sets. Compatibility normalization, a standard text conversion, may reduce ㏅ to plain cd; the square disappears, but the unit reading stays.
Don't confuse it with
1cd Plain cd is the candela abbreviation without the square-cell wrapper; ㏅ presents those same letters in a square for compatibility with older text.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why did ㏅ turn into cd?
Compatibility normalization can do that. It replaces the square form with the letters cd; the unit reading stays the same, while the square-cell presentation disappears.
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How to type or find ㏅
- Search it as
- candela symbol · candela unit · cd unit · cd symbol · ㏅ meaning
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.