What ㌏ means
It represents ガンマ, “gamma” in Japanese katakana. Katakana is one of Japanese’s syllabic scripts. In Japanese, ガンマ names the Greek letter, mass and magnetic-flux units, or technical terms in photography and chemistry; context sets the sense.
The square form comes from older Japanese text standards such as JIS X 0208, where multi-kana words fit one full-width cell (as wide as an ordinary Japanese character). The JIS series began with JIS C 6226 in 1978.
A Japanese full-width typographic label.
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Don't confuse it with
1Γ / γ These are the Greek gamma letters; ㌏ writes the Japanese katakana word ガンマ.
Questions people ask
1Does normalization change ㌏?
Only compatibility normalization does: NFKC expands it to ガンマ, while NFC leaves it unchanged.
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How to type or find ㌏
- Search it as
- Japanese gamma · gamma symbol · ㌏ meaning · ガンマ · katakana gamma · γ · NFKC
- 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.