In CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) computing, graphic characters are traditionally classed into fullwidth (in Taiwan and Hong Kong: 全形; in CJK: 全角) and halfwidth (in Taiwan and Hong Kong: 半形; in CJK: 半角) characters. With fixed-width fonts, a halfwidth character occupies half the width of a fullwidth character, hence the name. For a number of practical and aesthetic reasons, Han characters would need to be twice as wide as these fixed-width SBCS characters. These "fullwidth characters" were typically encoded in a DBCS (double byte character set). On this page, you can convert halfwidth characters to fullwidth characters, or vice versa. To convert halfwidth characters to fullwidth characters, please enter the text below and choose "Convert to Full Width Characters". To convert fullwidth characters to halfwidth characters, please enter the text below and choose "Convert to Half Width Characters"
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Convert to Full Width Characters (Double Byte Characters) Convert to Half Width Characters (Single Byte Characters)