U+FA39 "塀" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA39 "塀" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a special glyph originating from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was primarily designed to encode characters from legacy standards to ensure round-trip compatibility with older Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) character set implementations. This particular character represents a variant or duplicate form of a standard CJK Unified Ideograph, specifically a variant of the character "祹" or a similar component, and is not generally used in modern, standard writing systems. Its inclusion in Unicode is a technical necessity for preserving the original mappings of pre-Unicode character sets, such as those found in earlier industry standards or software, rather than for common textual use. As a result, the character often appears only in specialized contexts like historical text conversion, font development, or database interoperability where exact representation of legacy data is required.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA39
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 "塀" U+5840 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 塀
HTML Hex Encoding 塀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA8 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA39
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA39
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa39

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 "塀" U+5840 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "塀" U+5840 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+5840
kIRG_JSource J3-2F5A
kJIS0213 1,15,58
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+13384+32.3.11
kRSUnicode 32.9
kTotalStrokes 14