U+FA32 "免" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA32 "免" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was encoded primarily to maintain round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as those used in Japanese industrial standards. This specific character is a variant of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph for the Chinese character "免" (meaning to avoid, exempt, or free), which is found at U+514D, but it was given a separate code point in the compatibility block to match a specific, slightly stylized form used in certain legacy systems. In modern text processing, usage of U+FA32 is generally discouraged in favor of its unified counterpart, as compatibility ideographs are considered duplicates and are not intended for active writing; they are preserved for historical and data interchange purposes where exact glyph reproduction from older documents is necessary.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA32
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 "免" U+514D CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 免
HTML Hex Encoding 免
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA8 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA32
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA32
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa32

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 "免" U+514D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "免" U+514D 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+514D
kIRG_GSource GCA-J0079
kIRG_JSource J3-2E50
kJIS0213 1,14,48
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+13389+10.2.5 C+13389+18.2.5
kRSUnicode 10.6
kTotalStrokes 7