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Glyph for U+332E
Source: Noto CJK

U+332E Square Piasutoru

U+332E 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 Glyph for U+30D4 Katakana Letter Pi, Glyph for U+30A2 Katakana Letter A, Glyph for U+30B9 Katakana Letter Su, Glyph for U+30C8 Katakana Letter To, Glyph for U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru. 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+332E offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The piastre or piaster (English: ) is any of a number of units of currency. The term originates from the Italian for "thin metal plate". The name was applied to Spanish and Hispanic American pieces of eight, or pesos, by Venetian traders in the Levant in the 16th century.

These pesos, minted continually for centuries, were readily accepted by traders in many parts of the world. After the countries of Latin America had gained independence, pesos of Mexico began flowing in through the trade routes, and became prolific in the Far East, taking the place of the Spanish pieces of eight which had been introduced by the Spanish at Manila, and by the Portuguese at Malacca. When the French colonised Indochina, they began issuing the new French Indochinese piastre (piastre de commerce), which was equal in value to the familiar Spanish and Mexican pesos.

In the Ottoman Empire, the word piastre was a colloquial European name of Kuruş. Successive currency reforms had reduced the value of the Ottoman piastre by the late 19th century so as to be worth about two pence (2d) sterling. Hence the name piastre referred to two distinct kinds of coins in two distinct parts of the world, both of which had descended from the Spanish pieces of eight.

Because of the debased values of the piastres in the Middle East, these piastres became subsidiary units for the Turkish, Lebanese, Cypriot, and Egyptian pounds. Meanwhile, in Indochina, the piastre continued into the 1950s and was subsequently renamed the riel, the kip, and the dong in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam respectively.

Representations

System Representation
13102
UTF-8 E3 8C AE
UTF-16 33 2E
UTF-32 00 00 33 2E
URL-Quoted %E3%8C%AE
HTML hex reference ㌮
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ㌮
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 39 DB 30

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) SQUARE PIASUTORU
Unicode 1 Name (na1) SQUARED PIASUTORU
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) Glyph for U+30D4 Katakana Letter Pi Glyph for U+30A2 Katakana Letter A Glyph for U+30B9 Katakana Letter Su Glyph for U+30C8 Katakana Letter To Glyph for U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+332E Square Piasutoru
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+332E Square Piasutoru
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+332E Square Piasutoru
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+332E Square Piasutoru
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+332E Square Piasutoru
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+332E Square Piasutoru
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+332E Square Piasutoru
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) Glyph for U+332E Square Piasutoru
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) Glyph for U+30D4 Katakana Letter Pi Glyph for U+30A2 Katakana Letter A Glyph for U+30B9 Katakana Letter Su Glyph for U+30C8 Katakana Letter To Glyph for U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+30D4 Katakana Letter Pi Glyph for U+30A2 Katakana Letter A Glyph for U+30B9 Katakana Letter Su Glyph for U+30C8 Katakana Letter To Glyph for U+30EB Katakana Letter Ru
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) Glyph for U+332E Square Piasutoru
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) Glyph for U+332E Square Piasutoru
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) Tu