What ㌓ means
It means “guilder,” packed into one Japanese text character.
The ordinary Katakana spelling is ギルダー. Like other squared Katakana words from Japanese legacy standards, it occupies one display cell—the square-width slot used by East Asian writing—when mixed into a line.
The Netherlands retired its guilder when it adopted the euro in January 2002. Curaçao and Sint Maarten introduced the Caribbean guilder as legal tender on March 31, 2025.
Compact typography for a currency word.
Is ㌓ an emoji? No; it is boxed text typography.
Questions people ask
1Why does ㌓ turn into ギルダー?
Text compatibility normalization—a cleanup that replaces special presentation forms with ordinary text—can expand ㌓ to ギルダー. The word stays; its box does not.
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How to type or find ㌓
- Search it as
- guilder · gulden · florin · ギルダー · Caribbean guilder
- 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.