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㏉

square gy

Square Gy

㏉ is a square-cell form of Gy, the gray: a unit for radiation energy absorbed per kilogram. Some text processing turns it into plain Gy and drops the square.

Text symbol
Search it as
gy · gray · grey · boxed gy · gy symbol · radiation dose · dosimetry
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ㏉ means

It lets a Latin unit abbreviation fill one East Asian character cell.

The gray (Gy) became a unit in the International System of Units (SI) in 1975; it measures energy deposited by radiation per kilogram of material. In Chinese, Japanese, and Korean typography, a character often takes a full square cell; this form lets the two Latin letters occupy one such cell.

This set of square Latin unit abbreviations largely reflects older Korean character standards. Unicode maps ㏉ compatibly to the two letters Gy; text-normalization forms such as NFKC and NFKD can turn it into those plain letters.

Technical unit notation in a legacy full-cell layout.

The square changes layout, not the unit.

Don't confuse it with

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Gy
Gy is the plain-letter SI symbol; ㏉ puts those same letters in a square cell.

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 33C9, 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 gy”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 33c9, then Enter or Space.
HTML
㏉
CSS
\33C9
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㏉
HTML hex
㏉
CSS content
content: "\33C9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8F%89
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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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