Fullwidth Latin Small Letter T

Use a Japanese IME's full-width alphanumeric mode, then type t.

Microsoft's IME converts selected text with F9 to full-width and F10 to half-width; on a Japanese hardware keyboard, Shift + NonConvert toggles the modes. No English layout has a key for it — without a Japanese input method, your system's character viewer can insert it.

Why is ｔ wider than t?

It was built so Latin letters could match East Asian character cells.

Japan's JIS C 6226-1978 standard placed Latin letters together with kana, symbols and kanji in a 94×94 grid. On the fixed-width terminals of that era, characters such as kana and kanji typically took two display cells where an ASCII character took one, so a matching set of "fullwidth" Latin letters let mixed text align cleanly.

Unicode kept ｔ so text can still convert to and from those older encodings: it is the same letter and sound as t, only the width differs. During the 2010s vaporwave art and memes revived strings of such letters — ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃｓ — as a retro-digital look.

Will ｔ work like a normal t?

It reads the same, but software can keep them apart.

Unicode labels ｔ a compatibility variant of t: programs that apply compatibility normalization (NFKC or NFKD) fold it into ordinary t, while programs that compare the raw characters keep them apart. Whether a search box, spellchecker or validator treats them as equal depends on which it does.

Some Japanese web forms state which width — and sometimes which script — a field expects; fields elsewhere may simply expect plain ASCII. If a field rejects or mangles ｔ, retype it as ordinary t or match the format it asks for.

The character is encoded as wide rather than padded with space, but the font and layout decide how wide it actually draws — in proportional type it needn't be exactly double a normal t.