U+FA23 "﨣" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA23 "﨣" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a collection of East Asian characters that were encoded for compatibility with older character sets and standards. This specific character, "﨣", represents a variant or simplified form of a standard CJK ideograph, often used in historical or specific regional contexts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that text from legacy systems, such as certain Japanese or Chinese character encodings, can be accurately represented and displayed without loss of information, though it is generally not used in modern, standardized writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA23
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	﨣
HTML Hex Encoding	﨣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA8 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA23
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA23
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa23

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	GOYJ
kIBMJapan	FBB1
kIRG_GSource	GU-0FA23
kIRG_JSource	JA-2728
kIRG_USource	UTC-00850
kJapanese	キュウ
kMojiJoho	MJ030227
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+8630+68.4.7 C+8630+156.7.4
kRSUnicode	156.4
kTotalStrokes	11