What ㌛ means
㌛ is a one-cell Japanese spelling of “krone.”
The full word is written クローネ in four kana, Japanese phonetic characters. This belongs to kumimoji (組文字), a compact square-letter style that let multi-character words fit in newspaper columns, tables, and vertical text.
Japan's JIS X 0208 character-set standard provides a standardization context by 1978, not a confirmed creation date for this exact character. “Krone” names Norwegian and Danish currencies and also appears in historical currency names, including the Austro-Hungarian krone.
A compact Japanese spelling for a currency word, not a currency mark for one country.
Don't treat it as one fixed national currency: “krone” refers to currencies in different places and periods.
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Questions people ask
1Why does ㌛ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Compatibility block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find ㌛
- Search it as
- krone · クローネ · kuroone · kumimoji
- 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.