U+FA3C "屮" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA3C "屮" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a rare and specialized glyph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, used primarily for compatibility with pre-existing character standards from East Asian text processing systems. It represents a variant form of the Chinese character for "grass" or "herb," corresponding to the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+8349 "草". This character was encoded to preserve the exact visual representation found in older character sets such as JIS or CNS, ensuring that documents converted from those systems maintain their original appearance, though its use is largely obsolete in modern digital text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA3C
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	"屮" U+5C6E CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	屮
HTML Hex Encoding	屮
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA8 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA3C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA3C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa3c

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	"屮" U+5C6E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"屮" U+5C6E 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+5C6E
kIRG_JSource	J3-4F62
kJIS0213	1,47,66
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+16837+45.3.0
kRSUnicode	45.0
kTotalStrokes	3