U+FA31 "僧" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA31 "僧" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean) Compatibility Ideographs block, representing a variant form of a standard Chinese character. It is specifically a duplicate or legacy shape of the character for "monk" or "Buddhist priest," which in its regular Unified CJK form is encoded at a different code point. This character was included in Unicode to preserve the exact glyph and roundtrip compatibility with older East Asian character set standards, such as CNS 11643 or certain Japanese industry standards, rather than to represent a new or distinct meaning. Its usage is primarily historical or in specialized contexts where the precise original typographic form must be maintained, and it is not commonly used in modern everyday text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA31
Version Added	3.2
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	"僧" U+50E7 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	僧
HTML Hex Encoding	僧
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA8 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA31
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA31
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa31

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	"僧" U+50E7 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"僧" U+50E7 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+50E7
kIRG_JSource	J3-2E49
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+50E7
kJIS0213	1,14,41
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13360+9.2.12
kRSUnicode	9.12
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	J