U+FA22 "諸" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA22 "諸" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph encoded in the Unicode standard to represent a variant or duplicate form of the standard CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) character U+8AF8 which is the character for "zhu" or "sho" meaning "various" or "several." Inclusion as a compatibility ideograph indicates that this glyph was unified with its standard counterpart during Unicode normalization, but is separately encoded to preserve round-trip conversion compatibility with older character set standards, such as the CNS 11643 or other East Asian encoding schemes, where it appeared as a distinct code point. This character is rarely used in modern text and is primarily encountered in legacy data, historical documents, or specialized CJK font sets.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA22
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 "諸" U+8AF8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 諸
HTML Hex Encoding 諸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA8 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA22
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA22
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa22

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 "諸" U+8AF8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "諸" U+8AF8 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 1250.504
kCompatibilityVariant U+8AF8
kDefinition several
kIBMJapan FBA9
kIRG_JSource J3-7C2E
kIRG_USource UTC-00930
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010:U+8AF8
kJIS0213 1,92,14
kJapaneseKun MORO KORE
kJapaneseOn SHO
kKorean CEY
kNelson 4395
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+8622+149.7.9
kRSUnicode 149.9
kTotalStrokes 16
kUnihanCore2020 J