U+FA17 "益" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA17 "益" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, included in Unicode primarily to preserve roundtrip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards such as JIS X 0208, where it represents a variant glyph of the CJK Unified Ideograph U+76CA, which means "profit" or "increase". This character is not typically used in modern text but exists to ensure that documents encoded under legacy standards can be accurately converted to Unicode without loss of information. Its usage is largely historical, and it is distinct from the unified version in terms of its specific glyph shape and encoding context.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA17
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	"益" U+76CA CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	益
HTML Hex Encoding	益
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA8 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA17
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA17
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa17

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	"益" U+76CA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"益" U+76CA 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

kCantonese	jik1
kCihaiT	939.101
kCompatibilityVariant	U+76CA
kCowles	5204
kDefinition	profit
kIBMJapan	FB75
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-030209
kIRG_USource	UTC-00921
kJapaneseKun	MASU MASUMASU
kJapaneseOn	EKI YAKU
kKorean	IK
kMeyerWempe	3893
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+8571+108.5.5
kRSUnicode	108.5
kSemanticVariant	U+76CA<kMeyerWempe
kTang	*qiɛk
kTotalStrokes	10