U+FF25 "E" Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter E Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FF25 "E" Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter E is a typographic variant of the standard Latin capital letter E, specifically designed to occupy the same character width as CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs, making it essential for monospaced or East Asian text formatting where characters are expected to align in a grid. It is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block in Unicode, created to ensure visual consistency when Latin letters are mixed with fullwidth Asian scripts. While it shares the same basic shape and meaning as the regular capital E, its doubled horizontal space distinguishes it as a stylistic representation used in contexts like digital typesetting, plain text files, or retro computing environments that require uniform cell sizes.

General Properties

Code Point U+FF25
Version Added 1.1
Name Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter E
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Wide
Decomposition Mapping "E" U+0045 Latin Capital Letter E

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding E
HTML Hex Encoding E
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBC 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFF25
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FF25
C/C++/Java Escape \uff25

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 "e" U+FF45 Fullwidth Latin Small Letter E
Lowercase Code Point "e" U+FF45 Fullwidth Latin Small Letter E
Simple Case Folding "e" U+FF45 Fullwidth Latin Small Letter E
Case Folding "e" U+FF45 Fullwidth Latin Small Letter E
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "e" U+0065 Latin Small Letter E
NFKC Simple Casefold "e" U+0065 Latin Small Letter E
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