Fullwidth Latin Small Letter N

It is lowercase Latin n set in a full-width cell. Unicode pairs it with ordinary lowercase n for text-layout compatibility: the letter value and sound stay the same, but the spacing and character identity differ.

This form served East Asian computer text. Japanese character standard JIS X 0201 (1969) provided a one-byte Roman character set; JIS X 0208 (1978) arranged Japanese characters, including Latin letters, in a 94×94 grid. Mixed-width encodings such as Shift JIS kept narrow and full-cell forms so Latin could align with square East Asian cells and older text could convert between systems.

In Japanese text with kanji or kana, ｎ can fit the character grid, including vertical layouts. It remains the Latin letter n; the wider form changes its spacing, not how it is read.

How do I type fullwidth n?

Choose a full-width alphanumeric input mode. Microsoft Japanese IME uses F9 to convert selected text to full-width alphanumeric and F10 to return it to half-width.

Japanese keyboards may also have Hankaku/Zenkaku keys or other input-method controls for switching widths; names vary by layout. Select a whole word when you want all its Latin letters in full-width form.

In East Asian fixed-pitch text, ｎ behaves like a full cell. Its actual screen width depends on the font and layout, so it may not look exactly twice as wide as ordinary n.