U+FF21 "A" Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter A Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FF21 "A" Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter A is a variant of the standard Latin capital letter A that occupies the same width as a CJK ideographic character, typically two bytes or a full square space, as opposed to the halfwidth form used in typical Latin text. It belongs to the "Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms" Unicode block, a range of characters designed to maintain visual consistency in East Asian typography, where fullwidth glyphs are used alongside Chinese, Japanese, or Korean script. This character is visually identical in shape to the regular capital A but is encoded separately to support specific layout requirements in monospaced or mixed-script environments. Its primary use is in text that requires alignment in a grid or when representing Latin letters within fullwidth text contexts, such as in certain terminal displays, old computer systems, or formatted documents.

General Properties

Code Point U+FF21
Version Added 1.1
Name Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter A
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Wide
Decomposition Mapping "A" U+0041 Latin Capital Letter A

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding A
HTML Hex Encoding A
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBC 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFF21
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FF21
C/C++/Java Escape \uff21

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Fullwidth
Uppercase Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point "a" U+FF41 Fullwidth Latin Small Letter A
Lowercase Code Point "a" U+FF41 Fullwidth Latin Small Letter A
Simple Case Folding "a" U+FF41 Fullwidth Latin Small Letter A
Case Folding "a" U+FF41 Fullwidth Latin Small Letter A
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A
NFKC Simple Casefold "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A
Script Latin
Script Extensions Latin
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Hex Digit Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break Upper