U+FF17 "7" Fullwidth Digit Seven Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FF17 "7" Fullwidth Digit Seven is a typographic variant of the standard ASCII digit "7" that occupies the same width as a fullwidth CJK character, typically used in East Asian text to achieve visual consistency and alignment when mixed with Chinese, Japanese, or Korean characters. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, encoded primarily for compatibility with legacy character sets, and is commonly found in monospaced or proportional fonts designed for vertical text, spreadsheets, or formatted documents where uniform character spacing is required.

General Properties

Code Point U+FF17
Version Added 1.1
Name Fullwidth Digit Seven
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category Decimal Number
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class European Number
Decomposition Type Wide
Decomposition Mapping "7" U+0037 Digit Seven

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 7
HTML Hex Encoding 7
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBC 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFF17
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FF17
C/C++/Java Escape \uff17

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type Decimal
Numeric Value 7
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Fullwidth
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "7" U+0037 Digit Seven
NFKC Simple Casefold "7" U+0037 Digit Seven
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Hex Digit Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Numeric
Sentence Break Numeric