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㎖

square ml

Square millilitre sign

㎖ means millilitres: the boxed <code>ml</code> symbol in one East Asian character cell. Plain <code>ml</code> and <code>mL</code> name the same amount.

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What ㎖ means

It means millilitres; the square is a one-cell layout form. Unicode maps it to m plus ℓ, the litre sign.

A Japanese technical glossary, 工学字彙, records ml in 1886; that dates the abbreviation, not this boxed glyph. Unicode 18.0’s square-symbol set preserves Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese character standards.

As of 2026-09-06, Japanese layout guidance puts full-width units mainly in vertical text; official medicine notation uses mL.

Technical, compact, typographic.

The square changes the cell, not the amount.

Don't confuse it with

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mL
Two plain letters, same unit; ㎖ is the one-cell form.

Questions people ask

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Why does ㎖ look different?

It can show `l`, `L`, or script `ℓ`; Unicode 18.0 lists these forms. Text software that simplifies compatibility characters can turn it into plain `ml`.

How to type ㎖

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 3396, 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 ml”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 3396, then Enter or Space.
HTML
&#x3396;
CSS
\3396
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
&#13206;
HTML hex
&#x3396;
CSS content
content: "\3396";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8E%96
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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.

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