U+FF4E "ｎ" Fullwidth Latin Small Letter N Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FF4E "ｎ" Fullwidth Latin Small Letter N is a typographic variant of the standard Latin letter "n" designed to occupy the same width as a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) character, typically twice as wide as a regular ASCII letter. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which was created to facilitate the seamless mixing of Latin text with East Asian scripts in monospaced environments. This character appears visually identical to a standard "n" but is proportionally expanded, and it is primarily used for text alignment and formatting in contexts such as programming, typesetting, or legacy computing systems where character width consistency is crucial.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF4E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Fullwidth Latin Small Letter N |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Wide |
| Decomposition Mapping | "n" U+006E Latin Small Letter N |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ｎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ｎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBD 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF4E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF4E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff4e |
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 | "Ｎ" U+FF2E Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter N |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ｎ" U+FF2E Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter N |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ｎ" U+FF2E Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter N |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ｎ" U+FF2E Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter N |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | 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 | Lower |