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U+FF5E · FULLWIDTH TILDE

Fullwidth Tilde

  • CodepointU+FF5E
  • NameFULLWIDTH TILDE
  • Decimal65374
  • BlockHalfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (U+FF00–U+FFEF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySm — Math Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthF — Fullwidth
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+FF5E (～) is FULLWIDTH TILDE, a mathematical symbol in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a fullwidth form of U+007E ~ (compatibility decomposition <wide>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+007E ~. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

Its East Asian Width is Fullwidth, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type ～

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8EF BD 9E3 bytes
UTF-16FF5E1 code unit
UTF-320000FF5E4 bytes
HTML decimal&#65374;
HTML hex&#xFF5E;
CSS\FF5Ein content: "…"
JavaScript\uFF5E
JSON\uFF5E
Python\uFF5E
Python\N{FULLWIDTH TILDE}by name
Java / C#\uFF5E
C / C++\uFF5Euniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{FF5E}
Go\uFF5E
Ruby\uFF5E
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(65374)
URL-encoded%EF%BD%9Epercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+007E ~
NFKDU+007E ~
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+301C〜Wave Dash
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Nearby in Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

All in block →
U+FF58ｘFullwidth Latin Small Letter X U+FF59ｙFullwidth Latin Small Letter Y U+FF5AｚFullwidth Latin Small Letter Z U+FF5B｛Fullwidth Left Curly Bracket U+FF5C｜Fullwidth Vertical Line U+FF5D｝Fullwidth Right Curly Bracket U+FF5F｟Fullwidth Left White Parenthesis U+FF60｠Fullwidth Right White Parenthesis U+FF61｡Halfwidth Ideographic Full Stop U+FF62｢Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket U+FF63｣Halfwidth Right Corner Bracket U+FF64､Halfwidth Ideographic Comma