What ㎸ means
Read ㎸ as kV, the unit symbol for kilovolt.
k means kilo (1,000); V stands for volt. The square form fits those letters into one East Asian full-width cell. Unicode groups it with legacy square unit abbreviations; Korean KS X 1001:1992 includes it.
Ordinary technical notation is kV; NFKC compatibility normalization changes ㎸ to kV.
Technical, legacy-layout form.
The square frame does not change the unit.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
1kV Is ㎸ the same as kV? Yes: same unit; kV is standard notation, ㎸ its square compatibility form.
Questions people ask
1Why does ㎸ 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 ㎸
- Search it as
- kV · kilovolt · kilovolts · voltage
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㎸\33B8Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.