U+FF1B "；" Fullwidth Semicolon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
；
U+FF1B "；" Fullwidth Semicolon is a typographic variant of the standard semicolon designed for use in monospaced and East Asian text environments, where it occupies the full character width typically associated with CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) scripts. It is encoded in the Unicode Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block and is primarily intended to maintain visual alignment and consistency when mixed with fullwidth characters, such as in Japanese or Chinese digital text where punctuation marks are often proportionally spaced. Unlike its narrower counterpart, the fullwidth semicolon has a wider appearance and is commonly used in plain text documents, coding environments, or user interfaces that require uniform character spacing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF1B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Fullwidth Semicolon |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Wide |
| Decomposition Mapping | ";" U+003B Semicolon |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ； |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ； |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBC 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF1B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF1B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff1b |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Nonstarter |
| East Asian Width | Fullwidth |
| 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 |
| Terminal Punctuation | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Transformed Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Mid Num |
| Sentence Break | SContinue |