U+FF2E "N" Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter N Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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