What ㍸ means
Read it as dm²: area, not length.
Japan’s leather trade calls dm² one “deci”; by 1959 it had replaced tsubo, a traditional Japanese area unit.
The trail includes Japanese and Korean standards; a 2001 North Korean proposal maps the KPS 9566-97 form. Unicode 17.0 groups the three dm forms as East Asian single-cell Latin abbreviations; modern styling can do the same.
Technical unit in a typographic wrapper.
The superscript marks area; dm alone is length.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why did ㍸ become dm² or dm2?
CLDR 24 gives dm² as fallback; NFKC yields dm2.
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How to type or find ㍸
- Search it as
- dm² · dm2 · deci
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
㍸CSS
\3378How do I type ㍸?
In an app that accepts character-number hex input, enter 3378 and confirm; otherwise use the app’s character map.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㍸
HTML hex
㍸
CSS content
content: "\3378";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8D%B8
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On screen
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Code points
1
JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.