Source: Noto CJK

U+3308 Square Eekaa

U+3308 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+3300 to U+33FF CJK Compatibility in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is mainly used in the Katakana script.

The glyph is a square composition of the glyphs Katakana Letter E, Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark, Katakana Letter Ka, Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. This katakana joins with other adjacent katakana to form a word. U+3308 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

CJK Compatibility is a Unicode block containing square symbols (both CJK and Latin alphanumeric) encoded for compatibility with East Asian character sets. In Unicode 1.0, it was divided into two blocks, named CJK Squared Words (U+3300–U+337F) and CJK Squared Abbreviations (U+3380–U+33FF). The square forms can have different presentations when they are used in horizontal or vertical text. For example, the characters U+333E ㌾ SQUARE BORUTO (from ボルト) and U+3327 ㌧ SQUARE TON (from トン) should look different in horizontal and in vertical right-to-left: ㌧㌾
Characters U+337B through U+337E are the Japanese era calendar scheme symbols Heisei (㍻), Shōwa (㍼), Taishō (㍽) and Meiji (㍾) (also available in certain legacy sets, such as the "NEC special characters" extension for JIS X 0208, as included in Microsoft's version and later JIS X 0213). The Reiwa era symbol (U+32FF ㋿ SQUARE ERA NAME REIWA) is in Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (the CJK Compatibility block having been fully allocated by the time of its commencement).

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	13064
UTF-8	E3 8C 88
UTF-16	33 08
UTF-32	00 00 33 08
URL-Quoted	%E3%8C%88
HTML hex reference	㌈
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	ãŒˆ
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	81 39 D7 32

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	SQUARE EEKAA
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	SQUARED EEKAA
Block (blk)	CJK Compatibility
General Category (gc)	Other Symbol
Script (sc)	Katakana
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	square
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Katakana Letter E Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark Katakana Letter Ka Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Square Eekaa
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Square Eekaa
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Square Eekaa
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Square Eekaa
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Square Eekaa
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Square Eekaa
Case Folding (cf)	Square Eekaa
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✔
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Square Eekaa
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✘
ID Start (IDS)	✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Katakana Letter E Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark Katakana Letter Ka Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Katakana Letter E Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark Katakana Letter Ka Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Other
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Katakana
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✘
XID Start (XIDS)	✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✔
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✔
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Square Eekaa
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Square Eekaa
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	Tu