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Chinese

More information all; whole; entireall; whole; entire; every; complete, horn; angle; rolehorn; angle; role; actor; contend; horn-shaped; Chinese musical note ...

Pronunciation


Adjective

全角

  1. (computing, typography, chiefly Mainland China) fullwidth

Synonyms

  • (Taiwan, Hong Kong) 全形 (quánxíng)

Antonyms

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Japanese

More information Kanji in this term ...
 Fullwidth form on Wikipedia

Etymology

(full-) + (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

(ぜん)(かく) (zenkaku) 

  1. (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)
    (ぜん)(かく)アキ
    zenkaku aki
    an em aki
    (ぜん)(かく)クワタ
    zenkaku kuwata
    an em quad
    (ぜん)(かく)スペース
    zenkaku supēsu
    an em space
    (ぜん)(かく)ダッシュ
    zenkaku dasshu
    an em dash
    (ぜん)(かく)()()
    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.

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