Millimetre

The millimetre (American spelling: millimeter, symbol mm) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousandth of a metre, which is the current SI base unit of length.

The corresponding unit of area is the square millimetre and the corresponding unit of volume is the cubic millimetre.

[edit] Unicode symbols

For the purposes of compatibility with Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) characters, Unicode has symbols for:

• millimetre (㎜) - code 339C
• square millimetre (㎟) - code 339F
• cubic millimetre (㎣) - code 33A3

They are useful only with East Asian fixed-width CJK fonts, because they are equal in size to one Chinese character.

[edit] See also

• 1 E-3 m
• SI
• SI prefix
• Metric system
• Orders of magnitude (length)
• Conversion of units, for comparison with other units of length

[edit] References

• CJK Compatibility excerpt from The Unicode Standard, Version 4.1.