U+FE14 "︔" Presentation Form for Vertical Semicolon Unicode Character

U+FE14 "︔" Presentation Form for Vertical Semicolon is a typographic variant of the standard semicolon designed specifically for use in vertical text layouts, common in traditional East Asian writing systems such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. While the regular semicolon is used to separate independent clauses in horizontal writing, this presentation form is rotated or repositioned to maintain correct visual alignment and readability when the text is composed in a top to bottom orientation. It belongs to the "CJK Compatibility Forms" block, which contains characters that ensure proper glyph rendering across different writing directions without altering the fundamental grammatical function of the punctuation mark.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE14
Version Added	4.1
Name	Presentation Form for Vertical Semicolon
Block	Vertical Forms
General Category	Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral
Decomposition Type	Vertical
Decomposition Mapping	";" U+003B Semicolon

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	︔
HTML Hex Encoding	︔
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB8 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE14
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE14
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe14

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Nonstarter
East Asian Width	Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	";" U+003B Semicolon
NFKC Simple Casefold	";" U+003B Semicolon
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	SContinue