What ｀ means
It is the wide, width-preserving form of the ordinary backtick.
In fixed-grid Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text, it occupies a full-width cell. In ordinary Latin-script prose, the extra width is usually the visible difference; it can also change alignment in mixed-width data.
Treat it as a separate character when a format distinguishes widths. Use the narrow where the surrounding text or data format expects that form.
Why does this fullwidth form exist?
It keeps a backtick in the wide grid used beside CJK characters.
East Asian character sets had to place wide Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters beside narrower marks inherited from ASCII-era systems. A fullwidth form let the mark occupy the same cell width and supported conversion between mixed-width repertoires.
Japan's JIS C 6226 character standard dates to 1978. An IBM table for JIS X 0208 maps ｀ as JIS 212E alongside EUC and PC encodings; whether this exact cell appeared in the 1978 edition remains unresolved. The same fullwidth/halfwidth convention also appears in Chinese and Korean implementations.
Will it work as a backtick in code?
Usually no: code that expects the narrow may reject ｀.
In source code, a bug report, or a Markdown example, treat it as a possible width substitution. In a CJK text field, the fullwidth character may be intentional; use the form the format requires.
Technical and formatting-specific; in ordinary chat, its width is the main clue.
In code, its familiar shape can hide the wrong width.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsWidth-preserving punctuation occupying a full cell.
Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
3Questions people ask
2Does ｀ put a grave accent on the next letter?
No. It is a standalone spacing character, not a combining mark, so it will not place an accent on the next letter. A combining mark or a precomposed letter is used for a diacritic.
Why did my backtick become fullwidth?
Your input method may be in fullwidth mode. A Japanese input method can emit ｀ in that mode; switch to halfwidth or direct input for the ordinary .
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How to type or find ｀
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- backtick · backquote · grave accent · wide backtick · fullwidth backtick · zenkaku · ASCII backtick · wide grave
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
｀\FF40Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.