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㎬

square gpa

Square GPa

㎬ means GPa, the gigapascal pressure unit; in English-language academic contexts, GPA usually means grade point average. Its square frame comes from compact East Asian character sets that gave Latin abbreviations a full-width character slot.

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GPa · gigapascal · GPa symbol · gigapascal symbol · square GPa character
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ㎬ means

It means GPa: a gigapascal, the unit of pressure.

The square frame gives this Latin unit abbreviation one full character slot alongside Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text. It preserves spacing; it does not mark a different measurement.

Korean legacy encoding tables include this entry. In 2006, a Unicode standards document corrected its printed reference form toward mixed-case GPa. For ordinary modern text, write GPa.

Technical and archival; it preserves a compact unit form rather than adding conversational tone.

GPa is the pressure unit; in English academic use, GPA means grade point average.

Don't confuse it with

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GPA
In English-language academic use, GPA usually abbreviates grade point average; ㎬ means GPa.

Questions people ask

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Why does ㎬ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type ㎬

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 33AC, then Alt+X to get ㎬.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “square gpa”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 33ac, then Enter or Space.
HTML
㎬
CSS
\33AC
Unicode hex input
If your editor supports Unicode hexadecimal input, enter 33AC and use that input method's conversion command.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㎬
HTML hex
㎬
CSS content
content: "\33AC";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8E%AC
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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.

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