U+FA21 "﨡" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA21 "﨡" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode primarily to preserve roundtrip compatibility with older East Asian encoding standards, such as certain Japanese industry standards like JIS X 0213. This specific ideograph represents a variant or duplicate form of an existing Unified CJK Ideograph, and its use is generally discouraged in favor of its unified counterpart, as it does not add new semantic meaning but rather exists to allow legacy text to be converted to and from Unicode without loss. In modern text processing, it is typically treated as a compatibility character, meaning it is a duplicate for compatibility purposes and should ideally be mapped to its standard equivalent when possible.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA21
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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 﨡
HTML Hex Encoding 﨡
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA8 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA21
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA21
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa21

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
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
Unified Ideograph Yes

Unihan Properties

kCangjie LIHQM
kIBMJapan FBA0
kIRGKangXi 1081.111
kIRG_GSource GU-0FA21
kIRG_JSource J4-7745
kIRG_USource UTC-00849
kIRG_VSource V0-4279
kJapanese
kJIS0213 2,87,37
kKangXi 1081.111
kMojiJoho MJ030225
kMorohashi H542
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+8613+100.5.6 C+8613+142.6.5
kRSUnicode 142.5
kTotalStrokes 11
kVietnamese sên