Millimetre
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Template:Unit of length A millimetre (American spelling: millimeter, symbol mm) is one thousandth of a metre (the metre is the International System of Units (SI) base unit of length). The millimetre is part of a metric system. The corresponding unit of area is the square millimetre and the corresponding unit of volume is the cubic millimetre.
micrometre << millimetre << centimetre << decimetre << metre << decametre << hectometre << kilometre
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.