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Technical information
| Symbol | ～ | |
| Name | Fullwidth tilde | |
| Unicode number | U+FF5E | |
| Category | Fullwidth ASCII variants | |
| Description | The Unicode character ～, or U+FF5E, is known as the "Fullwidth Tilde". It belongs to the "Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of a tilde (~) but is fullwidth, meaning it occupies the full character space width typical for East Asian typography. The fullwidth tilde is commonly used in East Asian text to fit better alongside other fullwidth characters, such as kanji or hanzi. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ～ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ～ | |
| URL Escape Code | %EF%BD%9E | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xEF 0xBD 0x9E | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11101111:10111101:10011110 | |
| UTF-16 | 0xFF5E | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000FF5E |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\uFF5E" | |
| CSS Code | \FF5E | |
| JavaScript | "\uFF5E" | |
| Perl | \x{FF5E} | |
| Python 2 | u"\uFF5E" | |
| Python 3 | \uFF5E | |
| Ruby | \u{FF5E} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ～ in sentence and in bold like this ～ and in italic like this ～.
input-group
Font size:
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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
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select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>～</span>
span {
content: "\FF5E";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana