What ㌸ means
It is the boxed Japanese form of ペニヒ, the German Pfennig.
The German Pfennig was a small unit of the Deutsche Mark. A Japanese dictionary gives a 1908 example of ペニヒ; that dates the borrowed word, not this boxed character.
Japanese compatibility forms packed katakana (Japanese syllable signs) into one square cell for older text layouts. NFKC and NFKD compatibility normalization expand ㌸ to ペニヒ, removing the box.
Questions people ask
1Why did the box disappear?
Compatibility normalization did it: NFKC and NFKD expand ㌸ to ペニヒ.
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How to type or find ㌸
- Also called
- ペニヒ · Pfennig
- Search it as
- penihi · 組文字
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
㌸CSS
\3338Japanese phone keyboard
As of September 6, 2026, some Japanese phone keyboards did not offer every boxed kana form through ordinary conversion; availability varies by keyboard.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㌸
HTML hex
㌸
CSS content
content: "\3338";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8C%B8
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.