U+FF43 "ｃ" Fullwidth Latin Small Letter C Unicode Character
U+FF43 "ｃ" Fullwidth Latin Small Letter C is a typographic variant of the standard Latin letter "c" that occupies the full character cell width typical of East Asian scripts like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, rather than the narrower halfwidth space used by standard ASCII letters. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block and is encoded primarily for compatibility with legacy character sets and for use in monospaced or proportionally aligned text where visual alignment is important. This character is visually identical in shape to its halfwidth counterpart but is designed to match the width of other fullwidth CJK characters, allowing it to integrate seamlessly into mixed text environments without disrupting vertical or horizontal spacing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF43 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Fullwidth Latin Small Letter C |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Wide |
| Decomposition Mapping | "c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ｃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ｃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBD 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff43 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Fullwidth |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ｃ" U+FF23 Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter C |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ｃ" U+FF23 Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter C |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ｃ" U+FF23 Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter C |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ｃ" U+FF23 Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter C |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C |
| 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 | Lower |