What ㌠ means
For money, ㌠ stands for サンチーム: “centime,” one hundredth of a franc.
Japanese typesetters fitted small kana (Japanese syllable signs) spelling サンチーム into one full-width cell—a square as wide as a regular character. This composed form, 組文字 (kumimoji), suited vertical print and narrow tables.
Technical in currency writing; playful after a name.
After a name, read it as a team suffix.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsA centime, one hundredth of a franc.
Related characters
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Combination ideas
1“Kobayashi’s team,” via Japanese さん チーム wordplay.
Questions people ask
1Why does ㌠ show as a box?
It can. As of 2026-09-06, a phone or computer without a supporting font may show a missing-character box. Writing サンチーム spells out the intended reading.
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How to type or find ㌠
- Search it as
- santiimu · サンチーム · さんちーむ · centime · kumimoji · 組文字
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㌠
HTML hex
㌠
CSS content
content: "\3320";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8C%A0
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.