U+FF39 "Y" Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter Y Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+FF39 "Y" Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter Y is a typographic variant of the standard capital Y, designed to occupy the same width as a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) character, typically filling one square em space. It is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block in Unicode, created to maintain visual alignment and consistency in mixed script text, such as when Latin letters appear alongside fullwidth East Asian characters. This character is distinct from the regular ASCII Y in its width and Unicode range, and it is used primarily in contexts like literature, signage, and digital displays where monospaced or uniform character spacing is culturally or aesthetically required.
General Properties
Code Point
U+FF39
Name
Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter Y
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Y
HTML Hex Encoding
Y
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBC 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFF39
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FF39
C/C++/Java Escape
\uff39
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Latin