U+FA33 "勉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA33 "勉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph encoded in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode primarily to represent characters found in older Japanese and Chinese character set standards, such as the 8-bit JIS X 0208 standard, for roundtrip conversion purposes. This specific glyph is a variant or compatibility version of the regular CJK Unified Ideograph U+5036, which means "to laugh at" or "to disparage" in Chinese and Japanese, and it appears visually similar to its unified counterpart but was assigned a separate code point to preserve the original character shape from legacy systems. While modern usage is rare and often discouraged in favor of the unified character, U+FA33 remains part of the Unicode standard to ensure historical data integrity.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA33
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	"勉" U+52C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	勉
HTML Hex Encoding	勉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA8 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA33
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA33
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa33

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	"勉" U+52C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"勉" U+52C9 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+52C9
kIRG_JSource	J3-2E63
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+52C9
kJIS0213	1,14,67
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13385+19.2.7
kRSUnicode	19.7
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	J