U+FF4B "ｋ" Fullwidth Latin Small Letter K Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FF4B "ｋ" Fullwidth Latin Small Letter K is a typographic variant of the standard Latin small letter k, designed to occupy the same width as CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographic characters. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block and is primarily used in East Asian text processing to achieve visual alignment or balance within monospaced or ideographic layouts. This character is distinct from its standard counterpart (U+006B) in its appearance and encoding, allowing it to seamlessly integrate into fullwidth text environments such as Japanese kana or Chinese characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF4B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Fullwidth Latin Small Letter K |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Wide |
| Decomposition Mapping | "k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ｋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ｋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBD 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF4B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF4B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff4b |
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 | "Ｋ" U+FF2B Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter K |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ｋ" U+FF2B Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter K |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ｋ" U+FF2B Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter K |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ｋ" U+FF2B Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter K |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "k" U+006B Latin Small Letter K |
| 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 | Lower |