U+FF52 "ｒ" Fullwidth Latin Small Letter R Unicode Character

U+FF52 "ｒ" Fullwidth Latin Small Letter R is a typographic variant of the standard Latin lowercase "r," designed to occupy the same width as CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) characters in monospaced and East Asian text environments. It belongs to the "Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms" block, where it was encoded to enable consistent vertical and horizontal alignment when mixed with fullwidth ideographs or punctuation, commonly appearing in older Japanese or Chinese digital fonts and in contexts like terminal displays or text art.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FF52
Version Added	1.1
Name	Fullwidth Latin Small Letter R
Block	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Wide
Decomposition Mapping	"r" U+0072 Latin Small Letter R

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ｒ
HTML Hex Encoding	ｒ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBD 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFF52
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FF52
C/C++/Java Escape	\uff52

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	"Ｒ" U+FF32 Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter R
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ｒ" U+FF32 Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter R
Uppercase Code Point	"Ｒ" U+FF32 Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter R
Titlecase Code Point	"Ｒ" U+FF32 Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter R
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"r" U+0072 Latin Small Letter R
NFKC Simple Casefold	"r" U+0072 Latin Small Letter R
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