What ㌢ means
It represents センチ, the Japanese abbreviation for centimeter. Katakana is one of Japanese’s writing systems; the square layout packs the word into one text cell beside East Asian characters. Other squared unit forms, such as and , share the design.
These squared Katakana characters were inherited from older Japanese character encodings and retained in Unicode for compatibility. A 2008 Japanese text-layout presentation shows センチ set vertically and cm used horizontally. In Japanese, センチ can also mean “sentimental”; ㌢ refers to the measurement form.
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3Questions people ask
1Why does ㌢ 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 ㌢
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- ㌢ · センチ · centimeter symbol · Japanese centimeter mark · centimeter · cm
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㌢\3322Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.