What ㎱ means
It means a nanosecond, written as ns. A nanosecond is one billionth of a second.
Why is ns in a square? It fits two Latin letters into one full-width East Asian cell. Unicode's squared forms largely preserve older Korean character sets such as KS X 1001, alongside Japanese JIS, Chinese GB 2312, and Taiwan's CNS 11643. Its encoding date marks the glyph's entry, not the unit or boxed layout's origin.
Questions people ask
1Why does ㎱ look different in fonts?
It can; fonts draw the same character differently.
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How to type or find ㎱
- Search it as
- ns · nanosecond · nsec · U+33B1
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
㎱CSS
\33B1Unicode picker
To type ㎱, search U33B1 in a character map or Unicode picker and insert it.
Plain text
Use
ns when fixed-cell alignment is unnecessary.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㎱
HTML hex
㎱
CSS content
content: "\33B1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8E%B1
1
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.