U+FA0A "見" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA0A "見" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility block, primarily used to represent a variant form of the Chinese character "見" (meaning "to see" or "to appear") found in legacy East Asian character encoding standards, such as certain Japanese or Korean sets. Unlike its unified CJK counterpart, this compatibility ideograph exists to preserve round-trip conversion fidelity with older systems, ensuring that text encoded in these pre-Unicode formats can be accurately represented without losing its original glyph appearance. While it is technically distinct from the standard U+898B "見" character, in modern digital use it is often treated as a duplicate and may not be widely employed in contemporary writing, serving instead as a historical artifact within Unicode's extensive character repertoire.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA0A
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 "見" U+898B CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 見
HTML Hex Encoding 見
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA8 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA0A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA0A
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa0a

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 "見" U+898B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "見" U+898B 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+898B
kDefinition see, observe, behold; perceive
kHangul 현:0
kIRG_KSource K0-7A66
kKorean HYEN
kRSUnicode 147.0
kTotalStrokes 7