What ㍎ means
It means yard; the square is a layout frame.
The yard symbol ㍎ writes ヤード in Katakana, the Japanese syllabary used here for the borrowed word “yard,” and fits those characters into one cell the width of a standard Japanese character. The square marks the cell shape; it does not turn the unit into square yards.
This form belongs to Japanese legacy character standards, where multi-kana unit words could occupy one full-width cell beside ideographs.
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1Questions people ask
2Is ㍎ a square yard?
No. The square marks the text-cell layout; the unit is yard.
Why does ㍎ turn into ヤード?
Compatibility normalization unpacks its compact layout. The NFKC and NFKD text-normalization forms expand this character into the ordinary Katakana string ヤード.
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How to type or find ㍎
- Search it as
- yard symbol · yd · ヤード · ㍎ square yard · ㍏ · ヤール
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.