Home U+FF00 to U+FFEF Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Glyph for U+FF5E
Source: Noto Serif Tangut

U+FF5E Fullwidth Tilde

U+FF5E was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+FF00 to U+FFEF Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is a wide version of the glyph Glyph for U+007E Tilde. 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+FF5E 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 tilde (, also ) is a grapheme ⟨˜⟩ or ⟨~⟩ with a number of uses. The name of the character came into English from Spanish tilde, 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. Its freestanding form is used in modern texts mainly to indicate approximation.

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 hex reference ～
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ～
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) 81 60
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) A2 A6
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) A1 E3
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) A2 B2
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) A2 B2
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) A2 A6
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) A1 AB
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) A1 AB
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) A1 AB
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) 7E 7B 21 2B 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 43 22 26 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) 1B 24 29 43 0E 22 26 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) D9 A6
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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) FULLWIDTH TILDE
Unicode 1 Name (na1) FULLWIDTH SPACING TILDE
Block (blk) Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category (gc) Math Symbol
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) wide
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+007E Tilde
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+FF5E Fullwidth Tilde
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+FF5E Fullwidth Tilde
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+FF5E Fullwidth Tilde
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+FF5E Fullwidth Tilde
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+FF5E Fullwidth Tilde
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+FF5E Fullwidth Tilde
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+FF5E Fullwidth Tilde
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✔
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+FF5E Fullwidth Tilde
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✘
ID Start (IDS) ✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
Math (Math) ✔
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+007E Tilde
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+007E Tilde
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✘
XID Start (XIDS) ✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+FF5E Fullwidth Tilde
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) fullwidth
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+FF5E Fullwidth Tilde
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) Tr