What ㍿ means
It stands for 株式会社, a Japanese company-form label.
In late-19th-century Japan, reusable type pieces were square and fixed-width. 組文字—several characters set as one—packed common terms such as 株式会社 into one piece; ㍿ keeps that space-saving form.
Unicode's vertical-text rules let fonts rearrange its parts for vertical writing. As of 2026, layouts vary by font; both mean 株式会社.
A formal label in Japanese business typography.
As of 2026, some public forms and datasets reject one-cell company symbols; use 株式会社 unless the field accepts ㍿.
Don't confuse it with
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株式会社 株式会社 is the full form represented by ㍿; both name the same Japanese company type.
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1Why does ㍿ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ㍿
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- ㍿ meaning · 株式会社 · Japanese company label · 組文字 · kabusiki-gaisya
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㍿\337FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.