U+FA2B "飼" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA2B "飼" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a glyph that belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was designed to encode duplicate or variant characters from legacy East Asian character sets for compatibility with modern Unicode text. Specifically, this character represents a variant form of the standard CJK unified ideograph for the Chinese character meaning "to feed" or "to raise" (typically 飼), and it originates from the CNS 11643 standard used in Taiwan. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that text encoded in older systems can be accurately represented without loss of information, though it is generally considered a compatibility character rather than a core part of modern written Chinese or Japanese.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA2B
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 "飼" U+98FC CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 飼
HTML Hex Encoding 飼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA8 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA2B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA2B
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa2b

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 "飼" U+98FC CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "飼" U+98FC 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

kCompatibilityVariant U+98FC
kDefinition raise animals; feed; nourish
kIBMJapan FBF7
kIRG_JSource JMJ-030241
kIRG_USource UTC-00934
kJapaneseKun KAU YASHINAU
kJapaneseOn SHI JI
kKorean SA
kNelson 5163
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+8700+184.9.5
kRSUnicode 184.5
kTotalStrokes 14