U+FF0E "．" Fullwidth Full Stop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FF0E "．" Fullwidth Full Stop is a typographic variant of the standard period or full stop, designed specifically for use in East Asian writing systems such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it occupies the same width as a CJK ideographic character to maintain visual alignment and balance in monospaced or grid-based text layouts. Unlike the regular ASCII period (U+002E), which is narrow and fits within a standard Latin character cell, this fullwidth version is wider, typically taking up two character cells in legacy computing environments, and is employed in contexts like formal documents, punctuation in fullwidth text, or as a stylistic choice in certain digital fonts and user interfaces. Its primary function is identical to that of a normal full stop, marking the end of a sentence, but its expanded spacing ensures harmony when mixed with other fullwidth characters, making it a key element in typographic consistency across multilingual and East Asian scripts.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
． |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
． |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xBC 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFF0E |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FF0E |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\uff0e |
Unicode Properties