U+FF27 "G" Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter G Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FF27 "G" Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter G is a typographic variant of the standard Latin capital letter G, designed to occupy the same width as CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) characters, typically twice the width of a standard Latin letter. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block and is primarily used in East Asian text environments to ensure visual alignment and consistency when Latin letters are mixed with fullwidth ideographic scripts. This character is most commonly encountered in monospaced or terminal displays, legacy computer systems, and digital typesetting where fullwidth characters are required for proper spacing.

General Properties

Code Point U+FF27
Version Added 1.1
Name Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter G
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Wide
Decomposition Mapping "G" U+0047 Latin Capital Letter G

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding G
HTML Hex Encoding G
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBC 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFF27
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FF27
C/C++/Java Escape \uff27

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 "g" U+FF47 Fullwidth Latin Small Letter G
Lowercase Code Point "g" U+FF47 Fullwidth Latin Small Letter G
Simple Case Folding "g" U+FF47 Fullwidth Latin Small Letter G
Case Folding "g" U+FF47 Fullwidth Latin Small Letter G
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "g" U+0067 Latin Small Letter G
NFKC Simple Casefold "g" U+0067 Latin Small Letter G
Script Latin
Script Extensions Latin
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break Upper