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fullwidth latin small letter j

Fullwidth Latin Small Letter J

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j is a fullwidth lowercase j that fills one character cell. It lines up with Japanese text, but its extra width can leave a gap in ordinary Latin words.

Text symbol

What j means

It gives lowercase Latin j a full-cell width.

Zenkaku means full-width. Since the letterpress era, Japanese typesetting placed fixed-width Latin letters upright beside kana (Japanese syllabic characters) and kanji (Chinese-origin characters used in Japanese). Computer text kept separate widths so conversions of older East Asian text could preserve the distinction.

Japanese layout guidance favors fullwidth Latin in vertical text and generally discourages it in horizontal prose for appearance.

A typographic width choice, not a different letter or reading.

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Who writes j

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Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Why does j show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find j

Search it as
wide j · zenkaku · fullwidth Latin · wide lowercase j · 全角j
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType FF4A, then AltX to get j.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “fullwidth latin small letter j”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType ff4a, then Enter or Space.
HTML
j
CSS
\FF4A
Microsoft Japanese IME
Choose fullwidth alphanumeric mode, then type j. Shift NonConvert switches width; F9 selects fullwidth, F10 halfwidth during conversion.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
j
HTML hex
j
CSS content
content: "\FF4A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EF%BD%8A
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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