U+F903 "賈" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F903 "賈" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, originally included to represent a variant form of a Chinese character used in legacy character sets like those from Japanese or Korean standards. This specific code point maps to a shape that is a graphemic variant of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph for "jia" (meaning "to sell" or "merchant"), often seen in historical or specialized fonts. Its purpose is to enable round-trip conversion with older standards without losing the distinct visual representation, even though it is considered a duplicate of a unified character in modern text processing. As a compatibility character, it is not recommended for general encoding use, but it remains available for preserving original document fidelity.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F903
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Compatibility Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Compatibility Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"賈" U+8CC8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	賈
HTML Hex Encoding	賈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA4 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF903
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F903
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf903

Unicode Properties

Full Composition Exclusion	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"賈" U+8CC8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"賈" U+8CC8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCompatibilityVariant	U+8CC8
kDefinition	surname; merchant; buy, trade
kHangul	고:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-4D4F
kKorean	KO
kRSUnicode	154.6
kTotalStrokes	13