U+FA2E "郞" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA2E "郞" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph included in the Unicode standard to represent a variant or simplified form of a CJK character that appears in legacy East Asian character sets, such as those used in older Japanese or Chinese computing systems. It was encoded specifically to preserve round trip compatibility with those older standards, meaning that it is not a unique character with its own meaning but rather an alternative glyph for the character U+4E95 "井" or a similar related form. This ideograph is categorized under the CJK Compatibility block, which houses characters that would normally be unified into the main CJK Unified Ideographs block but are kept separate to maintain historical and system compatibility.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA2E
Version Added	6.1
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	"郞" U+90DE CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	郞
HTML Hex Encoding	郞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA8 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA2E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA2E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa2e

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	"郞" U+90DE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"郞" U+90DE 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+90DE
kHangul	낭:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-522B
kRSUnicode	163.7
kTotalStrokes	10