U+FA44 "梅" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA44 "梅" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a CJK compatibility ideograph representing the character for "plum" (generally corresponding to the standard CJK unified ideograph U+6885 梅), and is part of a special block of characters encoded for roundtrip compatibility with older, pre-Unicode East Asian character sets and legacy encoding standards. Its usage is primarily historical or in specialized contexts where exact byte-to-character mapping from older systems is preserved, and it is generally not recommended for modern text in favor of its unified counterpart.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA44
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	"梅" U+6885 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	梅
HTML Hex Encoding	梅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA44
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA44
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa44

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	"梅" U+6885 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"梅" U+6885 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+6885
kIRG_JSource	J3-7565
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+6885
kJIS0213	1,85,69
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13375+75.4.7
kRSUnicode	75.7
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	J