U+FA09 "降" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FA09 "降" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a CJK compatibility ideograph that represents a variant form of the standard Chinese character for "descend" or "fall," typically written as 降 in modern Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. This character belongs to a specialized block of Unicode compatibility ideographs, which were encoded primarily to preserve the roundtrip integrity of text conversion from older Japanese and Chinese character sets, such as those used in legacy systems or industry standards like the Japanese Industrial Standard. Although it maps to the same underlying meaning and usage as its mainstream counterpart, U+FA09 is considered a compatibility character and is generally not recommended for use in new text, as it may cause issues with search, sorting, and rendering across different platforms and fonts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that historical or specialized documents containing this variant can be accurately represented without loss of information.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
降 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
降 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xA8 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFA09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FA09 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ufa09 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCompatibilityVariant |
U+964D |
| kDefinition |
descend, fall, drop; lower, down |
| kHangul |
항:0 |
| kIRG_KSource |
K0-7A22 |
| kKorean |
HANG |
| kRSUnicode |
170.6 |
| kTotalStrokes |
9 |