What ㎕ means
It means one microliter, packed into one cell. Unicode maps it to Greek μ plus lowercase Latin l, so normalization may undo its one-cell width.
Unicode cites Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and CNS standards for square-unit forms designed to fit one East Asian character cell. A Japanese Pharmacopoeia guideline from July 2025 writes μL.
Technical measurement notation for compact East Asian text.
Mind the prefix: ㎕ is micro; is milli.
Don't confuse it with
2μL Yes: both name the same microliter; μL is ordinary technical notation.
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
- μl · µl · ul · microliter · microlitre
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㎕\3395Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.