What ㌜ means
It is the one-cell form of Japanese ケース.
The word is read roughly “keesu,” with the first “e” held longer; in Japanese, it can mean a container or a situation.
Squared katakana let multi-kana words fill a full text cell beside kanji, the characters used to write words or parts of words in Japanese. Unicode kept ㌜ for compatibility with older East Asian character sets; its ordinary sequence is ケ ー ス.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Does compatibility normalization (NFKC) keep ㌜ square?
No. NFKC expands it to ケース, preserving the Japanese word while removing the single-cell presentation.
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How to type or find ㌜
- Search it as
- ㌜ meaning · Japanese case symbol · ケース meaning · squared katakana
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㌜
HTML hex
㌜
CSS content
content: "\331C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8C%9C
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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.