What ㍷ means
It marks one tenth of a meter. The square is packaging for the unit letters, not a different unit.
Japanese 組文字 (assembled characters) fit letters or kana, Japanese syllabic signs, into a square cell for dense print. Japanese lexicography cites デシメートル (the Japanese word for decimeter) in 1877; that date belongs to the word, not this glyph.
Technical and typographic: a unit abbreviation packed into a fixed cell.
In measurements, dm means decimeter; DM for “direct message” is a separate use.
Questions people ask
1Could ㍷ mean direct message?
No. Here it means dm for the decimeter unit; “direct message” is a separate use of those letters.
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How to type or find ㍷
- Search it as
- dm · decimeter · decimetre · デシメートル · 組文字 · kumimoji
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
㍷CSS
\3377Unicode-hex input
Where software supports Unicode-hex input, enter 3377 and convert; keystrokes depend on the app.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㍷
HTML hex
㍷
CSS content
content: "\3377";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8D%B7
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.