U+FA4A "琢" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA4A "琢" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a Han character that was originally encoded in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block to preserve round trip compatibility with older character sets, where it represents a variant form of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph for the character often meaning "to choose" or "to select" and found in historical or specialized Japanese and Chinese texts. This character is distinct from its unified counterpart primarily in stroke shape or composition, serving as a legacy mapping for systems that used a non standard shape, and its use today is mostly limited to maintaining consistent display of pre existing digital documents or databases rather than in modern, everyday writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA4A
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	"琢" U+7422 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	琢
HTML Hex Encoding	琢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA4A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA4A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa4a

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	"琢" U+7422 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"琢" U+7422 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+7422
kIRG_JSource	J3-7825
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010
kJIS0213	1,88,05
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+7732+96.4.8
kRSUnicode	96.8
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	J