What ㏘ means
It marks the afternoon half of a 12-hour clock.
Unicode 1.0 links these boxed Latin abbreviations with the character sets KS C 5601 and CNS 11643. The boxes let an abbreviation take a full-size character cell alongside East Asian writing. In Japanese schedules, p.m. follows a time numeral and corresponds to 午後, the Japanese word for afternoon.
After a time numeral, ㏘ reads as p.m.; the box changes layout, not the time. is its matching one-cell a.m. form.
Don't confuse it with
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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
- pm · p.m. · square pm · boxed p.m.
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
㏘CSS
\33D8Type the character
In a character map, search “square pm” to enter ㏘. NFKC compatibility normalization, a text-cleanup process, may expand it to p.m.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㏘
HTML hex
㏘
CSS content
content: "\33D8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8F%98
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.