U+FA20 "蘒" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA20 "蘒" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a collection of characters specifically encoded for round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character set standards, such as certain Japanese industrial standards. This particular character represents a variant or duplicate form of a standard CJK unified ideograph, meaning it has the same semantic meaning and pronunciation as its unified counterpart but appears in a slightly different glyph shape or stroke order, often due to historical encoding practices. Its primary purpose is to allow text in these legacy formats to be converted to Unicode without losing the original visual representation, rather than for new text creation, and it is typically displayed using a specialized CJK font that supports these compatibility glyphs.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA20
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 "蘒" U+8612 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 蘒
HTML Hex Encoding 蘒
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA8 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA20
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA20
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa20

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 "蘒" U+8612 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "蘒" U+8612 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

kCangjie THDU
kCompatibilityVariant U+8612
kIBMJapan FB9F
kIRG_GSource GU-0FA20
kIRG_JSource J4-7738
kIRG_USource UTC-00929
kJIS0213 2,87,24
kJapaneseKun HAGI
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+8612+140.3.23 V+21073+140.3.21
kRSUnicode 140.17
kTotalStrokes 24
kXerox 171:143