# mb_strwidth

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5, PHP 7)

mb_strwidth — Return width of string

### Description

mb_strwidth ( string `$str` [, string `$encoding` = mb_internal_encoding() ] ) : int

Returns the width of string `str`, where halfwidth characters count as `1`, and fullwidth characters count as `2`.

The fullwidth characters are: `U+1100`-`U+115F`, `U+11A3`-`U+11A7`, `U+11FA`-`U+11FF`, `U+2329`-`U+232A`, `U+2E80`-`U+2E99`, `U+2E9B`-`U+2EF3`, `U+2F00`-`U+2FD5`, `U+2FF0`-`U+2FFB`, `U+3000`-`U+303E`, `U+3041`-`U+3096`, `U+3099`-`U+30FF`, `U+3105`-`U+312D`, `U+3131`-`U+318E`, `U+3190`-`U+31BA`, `U+31C0`-`U+31E3`, `U+31F0`-`U+321E`, `U+3220`-`U+3247`, `U+3250`-`U+32FE`, `U+3300`-`U+4DBF`, `U+4E00`-`U+A48C`, `U+A490`-`U+A4C6`, `U+A960`-`U+A97C`, `U+AC00`-`U+D7A3`, `U+D7B0`-`U+D7C6`, `U+D7CB`-`U+D7FB`, `U+F900`-`U+FAFF`, `U+FE10`-`U+FE19`, `U+FE30`-`U+FE52`, `U+FE54`-`U+FE66`, `U+FE68`-`U+FE6B`, `U+FF01`-`U+FF60`, `U+FFE0`-`U+FFE6`, `U+1B000`-`U+1B001`, `U+1F200`-`U+1F202`, `U+1F210`-`U+1F23A`, `U+1F240`-`U+1F248`, `U+1F250`-`U+1F251`, `U+20000`-`U+2FFFD`, `U+30000`-`U+3FFFD`. All other characters are halfwidth characters.

### Parameters

`str`

  The string being decoded.

`encoding`

  The `encoding` parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted, the internal character encoding value will be used.

### Return Values

The width of string `str`.

### See Also

- mb_strimwidth() - Get truncated string with specified width
- mb_internal_encoding() - Set/Get internal character encoding