U+FF5A "ｚ" Fullwidth Latin Small Letter Z Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ｚ
U+FF5A "ｚ" Fullwidth Latin Small Letter Z is a typographic variant of the standard Latin letter "z" that occupies a full character width, matching the square-shaped grid of East Asian scripts like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK). It is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, designed to align with the visual proportions of ideographic characters for stylistic consistency in mixed-script text. This character is typically used in digital and printed contexts where a monospaced or uniform appearance is desired, such as in text formatting, programming environments, or retro-style interfaces.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF5A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Fullwidth Latin Small Letter Z |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Wide |
| Decomposition Mapping | "z" U+007A Latin Small Letter Z |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ｚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ｚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBD 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF5A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF5A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff5a |
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 | "Ｚ" U+FF3A Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter Z |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ｚ" U+FF3A Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter Z |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ｚ" U+FF3A Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter Z |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ｚ" U+FF3A Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter Z |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "z" U+007A Latin Small Letter Z |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "z" U+007A Latin Small Letter Z |
| 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 |