Unicode Character ";" (U+FF1B)

The character (Fullwidth Semicolon) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FF1B. It is encoded in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ;.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Fullwidth Semicolon
Unicode Codepoint U+FF1B
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Punctuation
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+FF1B Conversion

HTML (decimal) ;
HTML (hex) ;
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BC%9B
CSS \00FF1B
JavaScript, JSON \uFF1B
C, C++, Java \uFF1B
Python \uFF1B
Rust \u{FF1B}
Ruby \uFF1B

How to type ";"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F F 1 B. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F F 1 B. Release Alt.

Preview

  • Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBC 0x9B
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFF1B
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FF1B

References