U+FF40 Fullwidth Grave Accent
U+FF40 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Modifier Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is a wide version of the glyph Grave Accent. Accordingly, its width in East Asian Text is fullwidth. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+FF40 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The backtick ` is a typographical mark used mainly in computing. It is also known as backquote, grave, or grave accent.
The character was designed for typewriters to add a grave accent to a (lower-case) base letter, by overtyping it atop that letter. On early computer systems, however, this physical dead key+overtype function was rarely supported, being functionally replaced by precomposed characters. Consequently, this ASCII symbol was rarely (if ever) used in computer systems for its original aim and became repurposed for many unrelated uses in computer programming.
The sign is located on the left-top of a US or UK layout keyboard, next to the 1 key. On older keyboards, the Escape key was at this location, and the backtick key was somewhere on the right side of the layout. Provision (if any) of the backtick on other keyboards varies by national keyboard layout and keyboard mapping.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 65344 |
| UTF-8 | EF BD 80 |
| UTF-16 | FF 40 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 FF 40 |
| URL-Quoted | %EF%BD%80 |
| HTML hex reference | ｀ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌｀ |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A3 E0 |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A1 AE |
| Adobe Glyph List | gravemonospace |
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| FULLWIDTH GRAVE ACCENT | |
| FULLWIDTH SPACING GRAVE | |
| Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms | |
| Modifier Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| wide | |
| Grave Accent | |
| ✘ | |
| Fullwidth Grave Accent | |
| Fullwidth Grave Accent | |
| ✘ | |
| Fullwidth Grave Accent | |
| Fullwidth Grave Accent | |
| Fullwidth Grave Accent | |
| Fullwidth Grave Accent | |
| Fullwidth Grave Accent | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Fullwidth Grave Accent | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Grave Accent | |
| No | |
| Grave Accent | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Fullwidth Grave Accent | |
| None | |
| fullwidth | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Fullwidth Grave Accent | |
| U |