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Chinese
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: quánjiǎo
- Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄢˊ ㄐㄧㄠˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: cyuánjiǎo
- Wade–Giles: chʻüan2-chiao3
- Yale: chywán-jyǎu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyuanjeau
- Palladius: цюаньцзяо (cjuanʹczjao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: cyun4 gok3
- Yale: chyùhn gok
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn4 gok8
- Guangdong Romanization: qun4 gog3
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰyːn²¹ kɔːk̚³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Adjective
全角
- (computing, typography, chiefly Mainland China) fullwidth
Synonyms
- (Taiwan, Hong Kong) 全形 (quánxíng)
Antonyms
- 半角 (bànjiǎo)
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Japanese
Etymology
全 (“full-”) + 角 (“square”), as in the square ボディ (bodi, “body”) or the 仮想ボディ (kasō bodi, “em square”, literally “imaginary body”) of a CJK glyph
Pronunciation
Noun
- (attributive, computing, typography, of an East Asian character or glyph) the state of being fullwidth and full-height which, in early computer encoding, occupies 2 bytes, and in modern typography, equals 1 em
- Coordinate terms: 二分 (nibu, “literally halfwidth/-height”), 倍角 (baikaku, “double-width/-height”), 半角 (hankaku, “conceptually halfwidth”)
- 全角アキ
- zenkaku aki
- an em aki
- 全角クワタ
- zenkaku kuwata
- an em quad
- 全角スペース
- zenkaku supēsu
- an em space
- 全角ダッシュ
- zenkaku dasshu
- an em dash
- 全角文字
- zenkaku moji
- an fullwidth and -height/em-width/double-byte character
Usage notes
- This term is now only technically correct in the typographic sense. The number of bytes to represent a CJK character in Unicode depends on the character and the Unicode encoding form that is used. For UTF-8, at least 3 bytes are required.
See also
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