U+FA43 "暑" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA43 "暑" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a rarely used symbol classified under the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which exists primarily to encode variants of Chinese characters for compatibility with older East Asian text encodings. This particular ideograph is a compatibility equivalent of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph found at U+6B4D, which represents the character for "grain" or "cereal" (穭). It was introduced into Unicode specifically to allow round-trip conversion from legacy standards like JIS X 0208, where it appears as a variant glyph. In modern usage, U+FA43 is generally not recommended for new text; instead, its standard counterpart at U+6B4D is preferred to ensure consistent handling and to avoid confusion in digital typing and rendering systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA43
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 "暑" U+6691 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 暑
HTML Hex Encoding 暑
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA9 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA43
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA43
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa43

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 "暑" U+6691 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "暑" U+6691 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+6691
kIRG_JSource J3-7543
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010:U+6691
kJIS0213 1,85,35
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+13352+72.4.9
kRSUnicode 72.8
kTotalStrokes 13
kUnihanCore2020 J