diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/html4tree/main.kt b/src/main/kotlin/html4tree/main.kt
index ff480cc..8942c04 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/html4tree/main.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/html4tree/main.kt
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ internal fun crawl_directories(
             dirFiles?.forEach {
                 // ⚡ Bolt Performance Optimization: Short-circuit OS stat calls
                 // by checking cheap in-memory string exclusion rules first
-                if(!it.name.startsWith(".") && it.name !in exclude) {
+                if(!it.name.isHiddenFile() && it.name !in exclude) {
                     val childAttrs = readAttributes(it)
                     if(childAttrs != null && childAttrs.isDirectory && !childAttrs.isSymbolicLink) {
                         val childEntry = LinkedListEntry(it, currentLevel+1, readIdentity(it).key)
@@ -195,6 +195,13 @@ internal fun crawl_directories(
     }
 }
 
+fun String.isHiddenFile(): Boolean {
+    return when (firstOrNull()) {
+        '.', '\u3002', '\uFF0E', '\uFF61' -> true
+        else -> false
+    }
+}
+
 // ⚡ Bolt Performance Optimization: Single-pass loop with lazy StringBuilder
 // Chained `.replace()` calls allocate multiple intermediate strings.
 // A single pass over the string lazily allocating a StringBuilder is much faster.
@@ -310,9 +317,9 @@ fun process_ignore_file(curr_dir: File, dirFilesNames: Array<String>? = null): S
     val defaultSensitiveFiles = listOf(".git", ".env", ".ssh", ".htpasswd", ".htaccess", "id_rsa", "id_ed25519", "secrets.yml", ".html4ignore", ".DS_Store", ".aws", ".kube", ".npmrc", ".gnupg", "config.json", "credentials.json")
     files_to_exclude.addAll(defaultSensitiveFiles)
 
-    // 보안 향상: .env, .git 등 민감한 정보가 포함될 수 있는 숨김 파일(.으로 시작하는 모든 항목)을 기본적으로 노출하지 않도록 제외 (정보 노출 방지)
+    // 보안 향상: dot-like prefixes are treated as hidden to prevent visually-confusable sensitive entries from reaching generated indexes.
     (dirFilesNames ?: curr_dir.list())?.forEach {
-        if (it.startsWith(".")) {
+        if (it.isHiddenFile()) {
             files_to_exclude.add(it)
         }
     }
@@ -366,7 +373,7 @@ fun process_dir(curr_dir: File, excludeSet: Set<String>? = null, dirFiles: Array
            val fileName = it.getName()
            // ⚡ Bolt Performance Optimization: Short-circuit string match before expensive OS filesystem calls
            // 🛡️ Sentinel: Ignore hidden files/directories to prevent sensitive data exposure
-           if (!fileName.startsWith(".") && fileName !in exclude) {
+           if (!fileName.isHiddenFile() && fileName !in exclude) {
                var isLinkedDirectory = false
                var isSymbolicLink = false
                try {
diff --git a/src/test/kotlin/html4tree/HiddenFileSecurityTest.kt b/src/test/kotlin/html4tree/HiddenFileSecurityTest.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3bee2a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/kotlin/html4tree/HiddenFileSecurityTest.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+package html4tree
+
+import org.junit.Test
+import java.nio.file.Files
+import kotlin.test.assertFalse
+import kotlin.test.assertTrue
+
+class HiddenFileSecurityTest {
+    @Test
+    fun hiddenFileClassifierRecognizesAsciiAndUnicodeDotPrefixes() {
+        val hiddenNames = listOf(".env", "\u3002env", "\uFF0Egit", "\uFF61ssh")
+
+        hiddenNames.forEach { name ->
+            assertTrue(name.isHiddenFile(), "Dot-like prefix must be treated as hidden: $name")
+        }
+        assertFalse("visible.txt".isHiddenFile())
+        assertFalse("".isHiddenFile())
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun unicodeDotHomoglyphsAreExcludedFromDirectoryIndexes() {
+        val directory = Files.createTempDirectory("html4tree-homoglyph-").toFile()
+        try {
+            val hiddenNames = listOf("\u3002env", "\uFF0Egit", "\uFF61ssh")
+            hiddenNames.forEach { name -> directory.resolve(name).writeText("secret") }
+
+            val excluded = process_ignore_file(directory)
+
+            hiddenNames.forEach { name ->
+                assertTrue(name in excluded, "Unicode dot homoglyph must be treated as hidden: $name")
+            }
+        } finally {
+            directory.deleteRecursively()
+        }
+    }
+}