U+FF44 "ｄ" Fullwidth Latin Small Letter D Unicode Character
U+FF44 "ｄ" Fullwidth Latin Small Letter D is a typographic variant of the standard Latin letter "d" designed to occupy the same width as a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) character, making it part of the fullwidth forms block used primarily in East Asian text layouts for visual alignment and monospaced aesthetic purposes. Unlike its halfwidth counterpart, this character takes up the full square space of an ideographic character cell, often appearing in contexts such as old computer systems, terminal displays, or when mixing Latin script with East Asian scripts to ensure consistent spacing. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for accurate representation of legacy data and specialized formatting where proportional spacing is replaced by fixed-width glyphs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF44 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Fullwidth Latin Small Letter D |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Wide |
| Decomposition Mapping | "d" U+0064 Latin Small Letter D |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ｄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ｄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBD 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF44 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff44 |
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 | "Ｄ" U+FF24 Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter D |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ｄ" U+FF24 Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter D |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ｄ" U+FF24 Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter D |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ｄ" U+FF24 Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter D |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "d" U+0064 Latin Small Letter D |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "d" U+0064 Latin Small Letter D |
| 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 |