U+FF56 "ｖ" Fullwidth Latin Small Letter V Unicode Character
U+FF56 "ｖ" Fullwidth Latin Small Letter V is a typographic variant of the standard lowercase Latin letter "v," designed to occupy the same width as a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) character within monospaced or East Asian text environments. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block of Unicode, where it was encoded to allow consistent alignment and aesthetic harmony when Latin letters appear alongside fullwidth ideographic characters in scripts like Japanese or Chinese. This character is primarily used in situations where text such as computer code, digital formatting, or graphic design requires uniform spacing without mixing narrow and wide glyphs. While visually identical in shape to its standard counterpart, the fullwidth "ｖ" takes up the entire character cell width, typically doubling the horizontal space of a typical halfwidth letter.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF56 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Fullwidth Latin Small Letter V |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Wide |
| Decomposition Mapping | "v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ｖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ｖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBD 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF56 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF56 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff56 |
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 | "Ｖ" U+FF36 Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter V |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ｖ" U+FF36 Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter V |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ｖ" U+FF36 Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter V |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ｖ" U+FF36 Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter V |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V |
| 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 |