U+FF2E "N" Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter N Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FF2E "N" Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter N is a typographic variant of the standard Latin letter N, designed to occupy the same horizontal width as CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) characters, which are typically monospaced and square in shape. This fullwidth form is commonly used in East Asian text to ensure visual alignment when Latin letters appear alongside ideographs or other fullwidth punctuation, such as in vertical writing, computer terminals, or formatted documents. It encodes the letter at code point U+FF2E in the Unicode Standard's Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, distinguishing it from its halfwidth counterpart, U+004E.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF2E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter N |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Wide |
| Decomposition Mapping | "N" U+004E Latin Capital Letter N |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | N |
| HTML Hex Encoding | N |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBC 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF2E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF2E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff2e |
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 | "n" U+FF4E Fullwidth Latin Small Letter N |
| Lowercase Code Point | "n" U+FF4E Fullwidth Latin Small Letter N |
| Simple Case Folding | "n" U+FF4E Fullwidth Latin Small Letter N |
| Case Folding | "n" U+FF4E Fullwidth Latin Small Letter N |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "n" U+006E Latin Small Letter N |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "n" U+006E Latin Small Letter N |
| 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 |