diff --git a/lisp/international/characters.el b/lisp/international/characters.el
index d19802c46fd..b29b0f8d094 100644
--- a/lisp/international/characters.el
+++ b/lisp/international/characters.el
@@ -1711,11 +1711,18 @@ the value of the variable with `setq'."
 				 (car code-range) (cdr code-range)))))
 	(optimize-char-table table)
 	(set-char-table-parent table char-width-table)
-        (let ((tbl (make-char-table nil)))
+        (let ((tbl (make-char-table nil))
+              (ambiguous-is-wide
+               (and cjk-ambiguous-chars-are-wide
+                    ;; MS-Windows Terminal forces all ambiguous
+                    ;; characters to be narrow, even in CJK locales.
+                    (not (and (boundp 'w32--terminal-is-conhost)
+                              (null w32--terminal-is-conhost))))))
           (map-char-table
            (lambda (range _val)
-             (set-char-table-range tbl range
-                                   (if cjk-ambiguous-chars-are-wide 2 1)))
+             (set-char-table-range
+              tbl range
+              (if ambiguous-is-wide 2 1)))
            ambiguous-width-chars)
           (optimize-char-table tbl)
           (set-char-table-parent tbl table)
diff --git a/src/w32console.c b/src/w32console.c
index b0a2f0c1c0e..8737b9cca70 100644
--- a/src/w32console.c
+++ b/src/w32console.c
@@ -59,12 +59,13 @@ static WORD w32_face_attributes (struct frame *f, int face_id);
 static int  w32con_write_vt_seq (const char *);
 static void turn_on_face (struct frame *, int face_id);
 static void turn_off_face (struct frame *, int face_id);
-static COORD w32con_get_cursor_coords ();
+static COORD w32con_get_cursor_coords (void);
 
 static COORD	cursor_coords;
 static HANDLE	prev_screen, cur_screen;
 static WORD	char_attr_normal;
 static DWORD	prev_console_mode;
+static DWORD	prev_output_mode;
 static int      bg_normal;
 static int      fg_normal;
 
@@ -121,7 +122,7 @@ w32con_write_vt_seq (const char *seq)
 }
 
 static COORD
-w32con_get_cursor_coords ()
+w32con_get_cursor_coords (void)
 {
   CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO info;
   GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo (GetStdHandle (STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), &info);
@@ -1005,6 +1006,13 @@ initialize_w32_display (struct terminal *term, int *width, int *height)
   GetConsoleCursorInfo (prev_screen, &prev_console_cursor);
 #endif
 
+  /* Record whether we are on ConHost or Windows Terminal.  */
+  const DWORD virt_mode_flags
+    = (ENABLE_PROCESSED_OUTPUT | ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING);
+  GetConsoleMode (cur_screen, &prev_output_mode);
+  w32__terminal_is_conhost =
+    (prev_output_mode & virt_mode_flags) != virt_mode_flags;
+
   /* Respect setting of LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.  */
   {
     char * lines = getenv ("LINES");
@@ -1204,6 +1212,12 @@ may be preferable when working directly at the console with a large
 scroll-back buffer.  */);
   w32_use_full_screen_buffer = 0;
 
+  DEFVAR_BOOL ("w32--terminal-is-conhost",
+	       w32__terminal_is_conhost,
+	       doc: /* Non-nil means Emacs text-mode terminal is MS-Windows ConHost.
+If nil, Emacs is displaying text-mode frames on the Windows Terminal.  */);
+  w32__terminal_is_conhost = 0;
+
   defsubr (&Sset_screen_color);
   defsubr (&Sget_screen_color);
   defsubr (&Sw32_use_virtual_terminal);