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㌷

square peso

Square Peso

㌷ is a compact Japanese spelling of ペソ, the word for “peso.” Its box comes from a Japanese typesetting convention that fitted a word into one character cell. In vertical text, the kana arrangement can change; compatibility normalization can expand the form back to ペソ.

Text symbol
Search it as
boxed peso · peso in Japanese · ペソ · ㌷ ペソ · Japanese peso character
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ㌷ means

It packs the Japanese katakana spelling ペソ into one cell. Japanese typesetting used boxed katakana words to fit short forms into an ideographic cell in dense text. In vertical Japanese text, the components can be arranged differently than in horizontal lines.

Japanese records attest to the spelling ペソ from 1860; that dates the word, not this boxed form. Squared-word characters passed from older Japanese character encodings into Unicode. NFKC and NFKD are compatibility-normalization forms: text processing that applies them expands this one-cell form to the ordinary sequence ペソ.

Don't confuse it with

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₱
Peso Sign
₱ is the Philippine peso sign, a currency mark; ㌷ is a boxed Japanese text character.
ペソ
This is the ordinary two-kana spelling. An NFKC conversion can replace ㌷ with ペソ; NFKD does the same.

Questions people ask

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Why does ㌷ 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.

How to type ㌷

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 3337, then Alt+X to get ㌷.
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 peso”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 3337, then Enter or Space.
HTML
㌷
CSS
\3337
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㌷
HTML hex
㌷
CSS content
content: "\3337";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8C%B7
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.

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