FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER Z character

FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER Z
U+FF5A
65370
ｚ
ｚ
Ll (Lowercase Letter)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
ｚ












FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER Z is a lowercase letter from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER Z is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Lowercase Letter (Ll) refers to characters that are lowercase in a bicameral script. These include lowercase letters in scripts like Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and others. Lowercase letters are typically used for most of the text in a language that has case distinction.

This character belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block. The Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block contains characters that are variants of standard characters, designed to be used in East Asian typography. Halfwidth forms are narrower versions of characters, while fullwidth forms are wider, designed to fit the grid layout used in East Asian text. This block is essential for proper rendering of text in languages like Japanese and Chinese, where halfwidth and fullwidth characters are commonly used in digital typography to achieve the desired visual effect..