U+FA0D "嗀" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA0D "嗀" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specific character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was originally included in Unicode to preserve the roundtrip compatibility of older East Asian character encoding standards, such as those used in Japanese industrial standards or early Chinese systems. This particular ideograph is a variant or duplicate of another existing CJK Unified Ideograph, included solely for compatibility with those legacy character sets. In modern digital use, its purpose has been largely superseded by the canonical unified CJK characters, and it is not commonly employed in contemporary text or typography outside of specialized contexts like archival document processing or converting historical encoded data.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA0D
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 "嗀" U+55C0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 嗀
HTML Hex Encoding 嗀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA8 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA0D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA0D
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa0d

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 "嗀" U+55C0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "嗀" U+55C0 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

kBigFive DDFC
kCangjie GRHNE
kCompatibilityVariant U+55C0
kDefinition vomit
kIRG_GSource GU-0FA0D
kIRG_HSource HB2-DDFC
kIRG_USource UTC-00916
kJapaneseKun HAKUSAMA
kJapaneseOn KAKU
kRSUnicode 30.10
kTotalStrokes 13