U+FA40 "懲" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA40 "懲" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph originating from the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A or earlier compatibility blocks, specifically encoded to represent a variant or simplified form of a standard Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character, typically preserved from legacy character set mappings to ensure round-trip conversion with older systems. Its glyph style, often differing slightly in stroke composition from its canonical counterpart, serves a historical or technical purpose rather than conveying unique semantic meaning, as it is considered a compatibility character that should ideally be mapped to a unified CJK code point for modern text usage. This encoding reflects efforts to maintain data integrity across platforms while acknowledging the character's origin in pre-Unicode standards.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA40
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	"懲" U+61F2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	懲
HTML Hex Encoding	懲
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA40
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA40
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa40

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	"懲" U+61F2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"懲" U+61F2 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+61F2
kIRG_JSource	J3-7461
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+61F2
kJIS0213	1,84,65
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13369+61.4.15 V+21072+61.4.15
kRSUnicode	61.15
kTotalStrokes	19
kUnihanCore2020	J