U+FA08 "行" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA08 "行" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph included in the Unicode standard to represent a variant form of the CJK character meaning "to go" or "to walk," which is typically written as "行" in standard Chinese and Japanese scripts. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a group of characters encoded primarily to preserve round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character sets and standards, rather than for general modern use. This specific character is a minor graphical variant that might appear in certain historical or specialized fonts, and its usage is generally discouraged in favor of its standard counterpart in contemporary text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA08
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	"行" U+884C CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	行
HTML Hex Encoding	行
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA8 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA08
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA08
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa08

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	"行" U+884C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"行" U+884C 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+884C
kDefinition	go; walk; move, travel; circulate
kHangul	항:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-7A21
kKorean	HANG
kRSUnicode	144.0
kTotalStrokes	6