What ㍖ means
It is レントゲン in one Japanese square cell. The reading can mean the roentgen exposure unit, an X-ray machine, or an image; a Japanese dictionary records the machine sense in 1918.
Why was レントゲン set in a square?
It saved space in vertical or narrow print. Japanese kumimoji (assembled type) fit kana, Japanese syllable signs, into one cell. Printers used small reusable type pieces; Unicode kept this form for compatibility.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1What happens to ㍖ under compatibility normalization?
It expands to レントゲン, keeping the reading but dropping the square layout.
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How to type or find ㍖
- Search it as
- rentogen · roentgen · xray
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
㍖CSS
\3356How to type ㍖
Japanese IME: type レントゲン and inspect candidates; if absent, enter U3356 with your system’s Unicode input method.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㍖
HTML hex
㍖
CSS content
content: "\3356";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8D%96
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.