全角

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Chinese

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all; whole; entire
all; whole; entire; every; complete
 
horn; angle; role
horn; angle; role; actor; contend; horn-shaped; Chinese musical note
 
trad. (全角)
simp. #(全角)

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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全角

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

Synonyms

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  • (Taiwan, Hong Kong) 全形 (quánxíng)

Antonyms

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
ぜん
Grade: 3
かく
Grade: 2
goon
 Fullwidth form on Wikipedia

Etymology

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(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

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Noun

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(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

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  • This term is now only technically correct in the typographic sense. CJK characters in Unicode are at least 3 bytes.

See also

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