U+FA2C "館" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA2C "館" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specialized glyph that represents a variant or compatibility form of a Chinese character, specifically related to the standard CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) ideograph for "hall" or "building" (often corresponding to U+9928 "館"). It belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode to preserve the exact shapes of characters found in pre existing standards and legacy character sets, such as those used in older Japanese or Chinese fonts, to ensure accurate round trip conversion. This character is distinct from its standard counterpart due to subtle differences in stroke order, shape, or encoding, making it primarily useful for historical text processing or maintaining fidelity with original documents rather than common modern usage.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA2C
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 "館" U+9928 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 館
HTML Hex Encoding 館
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA8 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA2C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA2C
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa2c

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 "館" U+9928 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "館" U+9928 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+9928
kDefinition public building
kIBMJapan FBF9
kIRG_JSource JMJ-030242
kIRG_USource UTC-00935
kJapaneseKun YAKATA TATE
kJapaneseOn KAN
kKorean KWAN
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+8702+184.9.8
kRSUnicode 184.8
kTotalStrokes 17