What ㏕ means
It puts “mil” in one square-width character cell.
Square abbreviations were made to fit one character-width cell in East Asian text. The wider group draws on older East Asian standards for mapping characters to computer codes, including JIS X 0208, JIS X 0213, KS X 1001, GB 2312, and CNS 11643. This entry expands to m, i, l.
Which mil unit is meant depends on the measurement: “mil” can mean a thousandth of an inch or an angular unit; the character does not choose between them.
Technical unit abbreviation; its square form serves East Asian text layout.
No: the square marks layout, not squaring. Use the measurement to tell which mil is meant.
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
- mil symbol · mil unit · mils · U+33D5 · ㏕
- 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.