What ㍐ means
Preserve the original character to keep its box.
NFKC, a standard text-normalization form, expands ㍐ to the three Japanese kana ユアン. The kana spelling survives, but the single-cell layout does not.
What does this square yuan symbol mean?
It means yuan, packed into one Japanese-sized character cell.
This is one of Japan’s squared words: several kana fitted into the square space used by a standard Japanese or Chinese character. The convention let compact labels—such as units and classified-ad symbols—fit into mixed text. for meter and for liter use the same convention. Here, the Japanese typographic form carries the Chinese monetary word yuan.
Why does square yuan change in vertical text?
Vertical Japanese text can rearrange the kana within the same cell.
Unicode 17.0.0’s proposed glyph table shows ユアン horizontally and ンユア vertically. This is a layout arrangement; a distinct vertical glyph depends on font support.
Unicode describes squared compatibility forms as inherited from legacy Japanese character sets. It encoded ㍐ in 1993; that dates computer encoding, not the first real-world use of the written form.
Its boxed shape signals compact Japanese legacy typography; the word inside refers to Chinese yuan.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why did square yuan turn into kana?
It can. NFKC normalization expands ㍐ to the Japanese kana ユアン, keeping the spelling while losing the single-cell form.
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How to type or find ㍐
- Search it as
- yuan · yuan symbol · yuan sign · 元 · 圓 · ユアン · CNY · RMB
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㍐\3350Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.