全角

Chinese

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): quánjiǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄢˊ ㄐㄧㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun⁴ gok³

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• 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⁾/
• 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/

Adjective

全角

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

Synonyms

• (Taiwan, Hong Kong) 全形 (quánxíng)

Antonyms

• 半角 (bànjiǎo)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
全	角
ぜん Grade: 3	かく Grade: 2
goon

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

• (Tokyo) ぜんかく [zèńkákú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [d͡zẽ̞ŋka̠kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

全(ぜん)角(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”)

   全(ぜん)角(かく)アキ

   zenkaku aki

   an em aki

   全(ぜん)角(かく)クワタ

   zenkaku kuwata

   an em quad

   全(ぜん)角(かく)スペース

   zenkaku supēsu

   an em space

   全(ぜん)角(かく)ダッシュ

   zenkaku dasshu

   an em dash

   全(ぜん)角(かく)文(も)字(じ)

   zenkaku moji

   an fullwidth and -height/em-width/double-byte character

Usage notes

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

See also

• 倍(ばい) (bai, “a multiple of an em”)
• 分(ぶ) (bu, “a fraction of em”)