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㎆

square mb

Square MB

㎆ is MB, the abbreviation for megabyte, set in a square cell. Older East Asian text layouts let Latin abbreviations take a cell as wide as a full-size character. The square changes layout, not the unit.

Text symbol
Search it as
MB · megabyte · fullwidth MB · MB symbol
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ㎆ means

It means megabyte, written as MB. The square let Latin letters occupy one East Asian character cell in mixed-width text. Unicode links square Latin abbreviations mainly to Korean standards, and square Japanese katakana (a syllabic script) to Japanese standards.

Should I use ㎆ or MB?

Use MB in ordinary technical prose. A Japanese translators’ guide lists MB or メガバイト for memory capacity. Compatibility normalization, a text-cleanup process, can turn ㎆ into MB; keep the square for legacy text or fixed-width layouts.

Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Why 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.

How to type ㎆

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 3386, then Alt+X to get ㎆.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “square mb”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 3386, then Enter or Space.
HTML
㎆
CSS
\3386
How to type ㎆
If your system’s character picker searches names, search “SQUARE MB”; otherwise type MB when fixed-width layout is not needed.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㎆
HTML hex
㎆
CSS content
content: "\3386";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8E%86
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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.

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