What ㍹ means
It means cubic decimetres, a unit of volume. A cubic decimetre is the space inside a cube with 10-centimetre sides, equal to one litre; its compact notation is dm³.
This sign belongs to a wider set of boxed unit signs drawn from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese character standards. They fit a single square cell used by older East Asian text.
A Japanese vehicle standard from 1998 wrote the unit as dm3. Compatibility normalization can expand ㍹ to dm³ or dm3; the unit stays the same.
Compact legacy unit notation for measurement standards and other technical text.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why did ㍹ turn into dm3?
It can. Compatibility normalization expands the boxed sign to dm³, while some text fallbacks use dm3. Both forms mean cubic decimetres.
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How to type or find ㍹
- Search it as
- dm³ · dm3 · cubic decimetre · cubic decimeter · dm-cubed
- 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.