diff --git a/src/InputHandler.test.ts b/src/InputHandler.test.ts
index ec3699ce..b7eeb352 100644
--- a/src/InputHandler.test.ts
+++ b/src/InputHandler.test.ts
@@ -1270,4 +1270,63 @@ describe('InputHandler', () => {
       [131072, 131072], [131072, 131072], [131072, 300000 - 131072 - 131072]
     ]);
   });
+  describe('should correctly reset cells taken by wide chars', () => {
+    let term: TestTerminal;
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      term = new TestTerminal({cols: 10, rows: 5, scrollback: 1});
+      term.writeSync('￥￥￥￥￥￥￥￥￥￥￥￥￥￥￥￥￥￥￥￥');
+    });
+    it('print', () => {
+      term.writeSync('\x1b[H#');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['# ￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '']);
+      term.writeSync('\x1b[1;6H######');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['# ￥ #####', '# ￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '']);
+      term.writeSync('#');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['# ￥ #####', '##￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '']);
+      term.writeSync('#');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['# ￥ #####', '### ￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '']);
+      term.writeSync('\x1b[3;9H#');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['# ￥ #####', '### ￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥#', '￥￥￥￥￥', '']);
+      term.writeSync('#');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['# ￥ #####', '### ￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥##', '￥￥￥￥￥', '']);
+      term.writeSync('#');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['# ￥ #####', '### ￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥##', '# ￥￥￥￥', '']);
+      term.writeSync('\x1b[4;10H#');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['# ￥ #####', '### ￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥##', '# ￥￥￥ #', '']);
+    });
+    it('EL', () => {
+      term.writeSync('\x1b[1;6H\x1b[K#');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['￥￥ #', '￥￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '']);
+      term.writeSync('\x1b[2;5H\x1b[1K');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['￥￥ #', '      ￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '']);
+      term.writeSync('\x1b[3;6H\x1b[1K');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['￥￥ #', '      ￥￥', '      ￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '']);
+    });
+    it('ICH', () => {
+      term.writeSync('\x1b[1;6H\x1b[@');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['￥￥   ￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '']);
+      term.writeSync('\x1b[2;4H\x1b[2@');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['￥￥   ￥', '￥    ￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '']);
+      term.writeSync('\x1b[3;4H\x1b[3@');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['￥￥   ￥', '￥    ￥￥', '￥     ￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '']);
+      term.writeSync('\x1b[4;4H\x1b[4@');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['￥￥   ￥', '￥    ￥￥', '￥     ￥', '￥      ￥', '']);
+    });
+    it('DCH', () => {
+      term.writeSync('\x1b[1;6H\x1b[P');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['￥￥ ￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '']);
+      term.writeSync('\x1b[2;6H\x1b[2P');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['￥￥ ￥￥', '￥￥  ￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '']);
+      term.writeSync('\x1b[3;6H\x1b[3P');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['￥￥ ￥￥', '￥￥  ￥', '￥￥ ￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '']);
+    });
+    it('ECH', () => {
+      term.writeSync('\x1b[1;6H\x1b[X');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['￥￥  ￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '']);
+      term.writeSync('\x1b[2;6H\x1b[2X');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['￥￥  ￥￥', '￥￥    ￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '']);
+      term.writeSync('\x1b[3;6H\x1b[3X');
+      assert.deepEqual(getLines(term), ['￥￥  ￥￥', '￥￥    ￥', '￥￥    ￥', '￥￥￥￥￥', '']);
+    });
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/InputHandler.ts b/src/InputHandler.ts
index 963ce145..0124f499 100644
--- a/src/InputHandler.ts
+++ b/src/InputHandler.ts
@@ -398,6 +398,12 @@ export class InputHandler extends Disposable implements IInputHandler {
     let bufferRow = buffer.lines.get(buffer.y + buffer.ybase);
 
     this._dirtyRowService.markDirty(buffer.y);
+
+    // handle wide chars: reset start_cell-1 if we would overwrite the second cell of a wide char
+    if (buffer.x && bufferRow.getWidth(buffer.x - 1) === 2) {
+      bufferRow.setCellFromCodePoint(buffer.x - 1, 0, 1, curAttr.fg, curAttr.bg);
+    }
+
     for (let pos = start; pos < end; ++pos) {
       code = data[pos];
 
@@ -509,6 +515,12 @@ export class InputHandler extends Disposable implements IInputHandler {
         this._parser.precedingCodepoint = this._workCell.content;
       }
     }
+
+    // handle wide chars: reset cell to the right if is second cell of a wide char
+    if (buffer.x < cols && bufferRow.getWidth(buffer.x) === 0 && !bufferRow.hasContent(buffer.x)) {
+      bufferRow.setCellFromCodePoint(buffer.x, 0, 1, curAttr.fg, curAttr.bg);
+    }
+
     this._dirtyRowService.markDirty(buffer.y);
   }