What ㌗ means
It means kilowatt. Japanese キロワット is the katakana spelling of “kilowatt”; katakana is a Japanese syllabary. ㌗ fits it in one full-width cell. ㌗ and kW name the same unit. Unicode expands it to キロワット.
組文字 (“assembled characters”) is a Japanese typesetting style that fitted several katakana into one full-width cell when space was tight, including in newspapers. The cell changes the layout, not the unit.
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Questions people ask
1Why does ㌗ 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.
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How to type or find ㌗
- Search it as
- ㌗ · kilowatt symbol · kW · キロワット · 組文字
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
㌗CSS
\3317How to type ㌗
In an editor with Unicode code-point input, enter U3317. NFKC (compatibility normalization) expands it to キロワット, losing the one-cell form.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㌗
HTML hex
㌗
CSS content
content: "\3317";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8C%97
1
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.