U+FF5E Fullwidth Tilde
U+FF5E was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is a Wide composition of the glyph Tilde. It has a Fullwidth East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+FF5E behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The tilde () ˜ or ~, is a grapheme with several uses. The name of the character came into English from Spanish and Portuguese, which in turn came from the Latin titulus, meaning "title" or "superscription". Its primary use is as a diacritic (accent) in combination with a base letter; but for historical reasons, it is also used in standalone form within a variety of contexts.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 65374 |
| UTF-8 | EF BD 9E |
| UTF-16 | FF 5E |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 FF 5E |
| URL-Quoted | %EF%BD%9E |
| HTML-Escape | ～ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ï½ |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A2 A6 |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A1 C1 |
| Adobe Glyph List | asciitildemonospace |
Related Characters
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| FULLWIDTH TILDE | |
| FULLWIDTH SPACING TILDE | |
| Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms | |
| Math Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| Wide | |
| Tilde | |
| ✘ | |
| Fullwidth Tilde | |
| Fullwidth Tilde | |
| ✘ | |
| Fullwidth Tilde | |
| Fullwidth Tilde | |
| Fullwidth Tilde | |
| Fullwidth Tilde | |
| Fullwidth Tilde | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Fullwidth Tilde | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Tilde | |
| No | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Fullwidth Tilde | |
| None | |
| Fullwidth | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Fullwidth Tilde | |
| Tr |