U+FF0D "－" Fullwidth Hyphen-Minus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FF0D "－" Fullwidth Hyphen-Minus is a typographic variant of the standard hyphen-minus designed for use in East Asian scripts, where it occupies the full character width of a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph. It is encoded in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block and is typically employed to maintain vertical and horizontal alignment in monospaced or grid-based text layouts, such as in traditional Chinese or Japanese documents, as well as in coding or data formatting contexts where a consistent character width is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF0D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Fullwidth Hyphen-Minus |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Dash Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Separator |
| Decomposition Type | Wide |
| Decomposition Mapping | "-" U+002D Hyphen-Minus |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | － |
| HTML Hex Encoding | － |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBC 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF0D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF0D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff0d |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Fullwidth |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "-" U+002D Hyphen-Minus |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "-" U+002D Hyphen-Minus |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Dash | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | SContinue |