U+FA1A "祥" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA1A "祥" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph derived from a Japanese industrial standard, intended to preserve the shape of a character used in legacy encoding systems rather than representing a unique or commonly used modern Chinese or Japanese character. It corresponds to the CJK Unified Ideograph U+7965 "祥", which means "auspicious" or "good fortune," but it exists in the Unicode standard specifically to ensure round-trip conversion compatibility between older character sets and modern text encoding. As a result, this character is rarely needed in contemporary writing and is primarily of interest for archival data processing or specialized typographic work where exact historical glyph shapes must be maintained.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA1A
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	"祥" U+7965 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	祥
HTML Hex Encoding	祥
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA8 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA1A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA1A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa1a

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	"祥" U+7965 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"祥" U+7965 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	981.505
kCompatibilityVariant	U+7965
kDefinition	good luck
kIBMJapan	FB80
kIRG_JSource	J3-793D
kIRG_USource	UTC-00924
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+7965
kJIS0213	1,89,29
kJapaneseKun	SAIWAI
kJapaneseOn	SHOU
kKorean	SANG
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+8581+113.5.6 C+8581+123.6.5
kRSUnicode	113.6
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	J