U+FA1B "福" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

福

U+FA1B "福" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specialized glyph representing the Chinese character for "blessing" or "fortune" (福), but it belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was created primarily to support roundtrip conversion with older East Asian character encoding standards like JIS X 0208, rather than to represent an independent distinct meaning. This character is considered a duplicate or variant of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+798F "福", and its use in modern digital text is generally discouraged in favor of the unified form, as compatibility ideographs like U+FA1B exist mainly for legacy system compatibility.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA1B
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	"福" U+798F CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	福
HTML Hex Encoding	福
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA8 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA1B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA1B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa1b

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	"福" U+798F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"福" U+798F 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	983.305
kCompatibilityVariant	U+798F
kDefinition	happiness
kIBMJapan	FB82
kIRG_JSource	J3-7941
kIRG_USource	UTC-00925
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+798F
kJIS0213	1,89,33
kJapaneseKun	SAIWAI HIMOROGI
kJapaneseOn	FUKU
kKorean	POK
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+8583+113.5.9
kRSUnicode	113.9
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	J