U+FE12 "︒" Presentation Form for Vertical Ideographic Full Stop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE12 "︒" Presentation Form for Vertical Ideographic Full Stop is a compatibility variant of the standard Chinese and Japanese full stop, specifically designed for use in vertical writing systems. When text is laid out in vertical columns rather than horizontal lines, this character rotates the usual full stop to maintain proper orientation and alignment, appearing as a small, centered dot instead of a corner mark. It is part of the CJK Compatibility Forms block, bridging the stylistic needs of traditional East Asian typography while remaining functionally identical to its horizontal counterpart, U+3002.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE12 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Presentation Form for Vertical Ideographic Full Stop |
| Block | Vertical Forms |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Vertical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "。" U+3002 Ideographic Full Stop |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ︒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ︒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB8 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE12 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE12 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe12 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Close Punctuation |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "。" U+3002 Ideographic Full Stop |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "。" U+3002 Ideographic Full Stop |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Terminal Punctuation | Yes |
| Sentence Terminal | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | STerm |