U+FF26 "F" Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter F Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FF26 "F" Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter F is a typographic variant of the standard Latin letter "F" that occupies the full character width typical of East Asian scripts such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, designed to align with the fixed-width grid of monospaced CJK text, where proportionally spaced Latin letters would otherwise appear uneven. This character is commonly used in contexts like vertical text, formatted tables, or plain text requiring visual consistency with fullwidth punctuation and kanji. Its code point and form allow it to be distinctly encoded from its regular ASCII counterpart, ensuring proper rendering and spacing in multilingual documents.

General Properties

Code Point U+FF26
Version Added 1.1
Name Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter F
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Wide
Decomposition Mapping "F" U+0046 Latin Capital Letter F

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding F
HTML Hex Encoding F
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBC 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFF26
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FF26
C/C++/Java Escape \uff26

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 "f" U+FF46 Fullwidth Latin Small Letter F
Lowercase Code Point "f" U+FF46 Fullwidth Latin Small Letter F
Simple Case Folding "f" U+FF46 Fullwidth Latin Small Letter F
Case Folding "f" U+FF46 Fullwidth Latin Small Letter F
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "f" U+0066 Latin Small Letter F
NFKC Simple Casefold "f" U+0066 Latin Small Letter F
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