Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

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Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms is the name of Unicode block U+FF00–FFEF, the last of the Basic Multilingual Plane excepting the short "Specials" block at U+FFF0–FFFF.

U+FF01–FF5E reproduce the characters of ASCII 21 to 7E as fullwidth forms (zenkaku), that is, as monospace glyphs with the same width as a fullwidth Kanji. This is useful for typesetting Latin characters in a CJK environment. U+FF00 does not correspond to a fullwith ASCII 20 (space character), since that role is already fulfilled by U+3000 "ideographic space".

U+FF65–FFDC encode halfwidth forms (hankaku), of Katakana and Hangul characters. U+FFE0–FFEE are fullwidth and halfwidth symbols.

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Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+FF0x
U+FF1x
U+FF2x
U+FF3x _
U+FF4x
U+FF5x
U+FF6x
U+FF7x ソ
U+FF8x
U+FF9x
U+FFAx
U+FFBx ﾿
U+FFCx
U+FFDx
U+FFEx

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