U+FA1D "精" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA1D "精" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph included in the Unicode standard to represent a variant form of the common Chinese character for "essence," "spirit," or "refined," which is typically written as U+7CBE "精." This specific character was encoded primarily for compatibility with older East Asian character set standards, such as those used in certain Japanese and Korean encoding systems, to ensure that text from those legacy systems could be correctly mapped to Unicode without loss of information. Its inclusion in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block means it is not recommended for ordinary text use, as modern systems prefer the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+7CBE for the same meaning and usage, making U+FA1D a legacy form that supports historical document accuracy rather than contemporary writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA1D
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	"精" U+7CBE CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	精
HTML Hex Encoding	精
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA8 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA1D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA1D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa1d

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	"精" U+7CBE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"精" U+7CBE 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	1026.404
kCompatibilityVariant	U+7CBE
kDefinition	essence; semen; spirit
kIBMJapan	FB89
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-030215
kIRG_USource	UTC-00927
kJapaneseKun	SHIRAGEYONE KUWASHII KOKORO
kJapaneseOn	SEI SHOU
kKorean	CENG
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+8590+119.6.8 C+8590+174.8.6
kRSUnicode	119.8
kTotalStrokes	14