What ㌻ means
Read it as ページ, the Japanese word for a page.
Japanese layout guidance treats ㌻ as a suffix: it follows a page number, which stays attached to it at a line break.
The loanword ページ entered Japanese print with Western-style books: ads used it around Meiji 20, and dictionaries by around Meiji 40. JIS X 0213:2004 records this form. The label also serves web and e-book pages.
Related characters
2
Combination ideas
1Japanese shorthand for page 12.
Questions people ask
1Why does ㌻ 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 ㌻
- Search it as
- page mark · page symbol · zenkaku page · ページ
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
㌻CSS
\333BHow to type ㌻
Use Unicode character input for U333B. Standard Japanese kana input yields ページ as three characters.
Keep it one cell
NFKC text normalization expands it to ページ. Skip that conversion when a single cell matters.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㌻
HTML hex
㌻
CSS content
content: "\333B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8C%BB
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.