What ㌌ means
It means carat: the Japanese word カラット in a compact form.
Japanese writes カラット in katakana, a syllabary commonly used for borrowed words. The square form lets that whole word occupy one full-width text cell, like the space used by a Japanese ideograph.
The word covers gemstone weight and gold purity. In English, carat marks gem weight while karat marks gold purity. A Japanese dictionary dates a use of カラット to 1826; that dates the word, not this compact symbol.
A compact, technical label for a unit.
In English, carat marks gem weight; karat marks gold purity.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ㌌ expand into カラット?
It expands because Unicode compatibility normalization replaces this compact character with the Katakana word カラット. The word stays the same; only its one-cell form changes.
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How to type or find ㌌
- Search it as
- ㌌ · カラット · carat · karat · ct
- 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.