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Glyph for U+FF3C
Source: Noto Serif Tangut

U+FF3C Fullwidth Reverse Solidus

U+FF3C 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 Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is a wide version of the glyph Glyph for U+005C Reverse Solidus. 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+FF3C 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 backslash is a mark used mainly in computing and mathematics. It is the mirror image of the common slash /. It is a relatively recent mark, first documented in the 1930s. It is sometimes called a hack, whack, escape (from C/UNIX), reverse slash, slosh, downwhack, backslant, backwhack, bash, reverse slant, reverse solidus, and reversed virgule.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 65340
UTF-8 EF BC BC
UTF-16 FF 3C
UTF-32 00 00 FF 3C
URL-Quoted %EF%BC%BC
HTML hex reference ＼
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ï¼¼
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) A1 AC
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) A1 C0
Adobe Glyph List backslashmonospace

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) FULLWIDTH REVERSE SOLIDUS
Unicode 1 Name (na1) FULLWIDTH BACKSLASH
Block (blk) Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category (gc) Other Punctuation
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) wide
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+005C Reverse Solidus
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+FF3C Fullwidth Reverse Solidus
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+FF3C Fullwidth Reverse Solidus
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+FF3C Fullwidth Reverse Solidus
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+FF3C Fullwidth Reverse Solidus
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+FF3C Fullwidth Reverse Solidus
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+FF3C Fullwidth Reverse Solidus
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+FF3C Fullwidth Reverse Solidus
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+FF3C Fullwidth Reverse Solidus
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) ✘
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+005C Reverse Solidus
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+005C Reverse Solidus
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+FF3C Fullwidth Reverse Solidus
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+FF3C Fullwidth Reverse Solidus
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U