What ㌄ means
It stands for the Japanese word イニング (“inning”).
Its full spelling is four katakana: イ・ニ・ン・グ. Use イニング in ordinary Japanese prose when clarity matters; ㌄ is the compact, one-character form.
Why is ㌄ a single character?
It fits a multi-kana word into one square text cell.
It belongs to the same squared-katakana set as ㌀ (アパート, “apartment”) and ㌅ (インチ, “inch”). In vertical Japanese text, fonts may arrange the kana differently than in horizontal text; it still reads イニング, as of 2026.
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4Questions people ask
2Can software turn ㌄ into イニング?
Yes. Compatibility normalization, a text-processing rule for equivalent forms, can expand ㌄ to イニング; software comparing Japanese strings may need to normalize them first.
Is ㌄ an emoji?
No. It is a Japanese text character for イニング, not an emoji sequence.
How to type ㌄
㌄\3304Codes and encoding1 code points
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