U+FA19 "神" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA19 "神" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that originates from Japanese and Chinese character standards, specifically representing an alternative glyph form of the character for "god" or "deity" (commonly written as 神). It falls within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a collection of characters encoded primarily to preserve roundtrip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards like JIS X 0208 and CNS 11643. While its visual form may differ slightly from the unified CJK character U+795E "神", U+FA19 is considered a duplicate or variant glyph and is not recommended for use in modern text, as its primary function is to ensure that documents encoded in legacy systems can be accurately converted to Unicode without losing their original character shapes. As a result, it is rarely used in contemporary writing and is mostly encountered in archival or historical digital text contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA19
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 "神" U+795E CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 神
HTML Hex Encoding 神
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA8 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA19
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA19
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa19

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 "神" U+795E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "神" U+795E 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

kCihaiT 979.301
kCompatibilityVariant U+795E
kDefinition spirit
kIBMJapan FB7E
kIRG_JSource J3-793C
kIRG_USource UTC-00923
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010:U+795E
kJIS0213 1,89,28
kJapaneseKun KAMI KOU TAMASHII
kJapaneseOn SHIN JIN
kKorean SIN
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+8580+113.5.5
kRSUnicode 113.5
kTotalStrokes 10
kUnihanCore2020 J