U+FA27 "﨧" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA27 "﨧" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph classified as a compatibility ideograph, meaning it was included in Unicode primarily to maintain round-trip compatibility with older character encoding standards, such as certain East Asian character sets or vendor-specific code pages, rather than representing a distinct new meaning. This particular character originates from the CNS 11643 standard (Taiwan's national encoding) and corresponds to the regular CJK Unified Ideograph U+5EDB "廛", which denotes a market or residential area in ancient Chinese contexts. In modern usage, U+FA27 is rarely used independently, as its purpose is to preserve the exact glyph shape from legacy systems where it might have been treated as a separate character for historical or typographic reasons.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA27
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 﨧
HTML Hex Encoding 﨧
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA8 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA27
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA27
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa27

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 CJKD
kIBMJapan FBD3
kIRGKangXi 1308.261
kIRG_GSource GU-0FA27
kIRG_JSource JMJ-030237
kIRG_USource UTC-00852
kJapanese コウ
kKangXi 1308.261
kMojiJoho MJ030237 MJ030236:E0101 MJ030237:E0102
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+8664+167.8.7
kRSUnicode 167.7
kTotalStrokes 15