What ㎘ means
It keeps the unit in one East Asian character cell.
A Japanese dictionary records kl in 1886 as a kilolitre abbreviation, not a date for this square glyph.
It belongs to the square Latin forms preserved for compatibility with older East Asian character sets; the unboxed sequence is kℓ.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why did ㎘ become kl?
NFKC normalization. This compatibility mode can turn ㎘ into ordinary kl; the unit stays kilolitres.
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How to type or find ㎘
- Search it as
- kilolitre symbol · kiloliter symbol · kl sign · kl · kℓ · litre sign ℓ
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㎘
HTML hex
㎘
CSS content
content: "\3398";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8E%98
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.