U+FA0F "﨏" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA0F "﨏" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a symbol derived from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a region of Unicode created to encode characters that were originally separate glyphs in legacy East Asian character sets for compatibility with older systems rather than for standard use in modern text. This particular ideograph represents a rare or variant form of a Chinese character, typically identified as a compatibility equivalent of the more common character U+6750 (材), which means "material" or "timber." Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that documents or data encoded in older character encodings, such as certain Japanese or Chinese industrial standards, can be accurately represented and converted without loss of information, despite the character being considered a duplicate or non-standard form in contemporary writing systems. As a result, U+FA0F primarily serves archival, historical, or specialized technical purposes rather than everyday communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA0F
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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 﨏
HTML Hex Encoding 﨏
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA8 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA0F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA0F
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa0f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
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
Unified Ideograph Yes

Unihan Properties

kCangjie GCCR
kIBMJapan FA9B
kIRGKangXi 0230.121
kIRG_GSource GDM-01006
kIRG_JSource J3-2F4B
kIRG_USource UTC-00844
kIRG_VSource V0-3446
kJapanese さこ
kJIS0213 1,15,43
kKangXi 0230.121
kMojiJoho MJ030193
kMorohashi H085
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+8421+32.3.7 C+8421+150.7.3
kRSUnicode 32.7
kTotalStrokes 10
kVietnamese cốc