U+FA36 "喝" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA36 "喝" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a special collection of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) characters defined for round trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards. Specifically, this character is a compatibility variant of the standard CJK unified ideograph U+559D "喝", which means "to drink" in Chinese and Japanese. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that text originally encoded in legacy formats like IBM's or Apple's character sets can be reliably converted to Unicode without losing information, even though using the standard unified character is generally preferred for new text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA36
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	"喝" U+559D CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	喝
HTML Hex Encoding	喝
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA8 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA36
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA36
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa36

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	"喝" U+559D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"喝" U+559D 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+559D
kIRG_JSource	J3-2F2C
kJIS0213	1,15,12
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+7651+30.3.9
kRSUnicode	30.9
kTotalStrokes	12