U+FE33 "︳" Presentation Form for Vertical Low Line Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE33 "︳" Presentation Form for Vertical Low Line is a typographic glyph designed specifically for use in vertical text layouts, primarily in East Asian scripts like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean where writing is traditionally arranged in columns from top to bottom. This character acts as a vertical variant of the standard underscore or low line, allowing it to run vertically along the left or right side of a column of text to provide underlining or emphasis that aligns with the vertical orientation. It is part of a set of vertical presentation forms that ensure punctuation and symbols maintain correct visual flow and orientation when text direction changes from horizontal to vertical.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE33 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Presentation Form for Vertical Low Line |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Vertical Spacing Underscore |
| Block | CJK Compatibility Forms |
| General Category | Connector Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Vertical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "_" U+005F Low Line |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ︳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ︳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB8 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE33 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE33 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe33 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "_" U+005F Low Line |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "_" U+005F Low Line |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Extend Num Let |
| Sentence Break | Other |