U+FA00 "切" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA00 "切" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that corresponds to the CJK unified ideograph U+5207, which means "to cut" or "to slice" in Chinese and Japanese. This character falls within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a range specifically designed to encode variant glyphs or forms needed to round-trip convert text from older character set standards, such as Japanese JIS X 0208, without losing information. Despite its identity with the unified character in meaning and usage, the compatibility ideograph is treated as a separate code point to preserve the exact original visual representation from those legacy systems, and it is typically not used in modern text creation, serving instead as a historical mapping artifact for data interchange and font compatibility.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA00
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	"切" U+5207 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	切
HTML Hex Encoding	切
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA8 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA00
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA00
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa00

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	"切" U+5207 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"切" U+5207 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+5207
kDefinition	cut, mince, slice, carve
kHangul	체:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-746E
kKorean	CHEY
kRSUnicode	18.2
kTotalStrokes	4