U+FA4C "社" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA4C "社" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that corresponds to the standard CJK Unified Ideograph for the character "社," which means "society," "shrine," or "company" in Chinese and Japanese. This specific code point was added to the Unicode standard to maintain roundtrip compatibility with older character encoding standards, such as the Japanese Shift JIS, where this particular glyph shape was encoded separately from its unified counterpart. In modern usage, the character is considered a duplicate of the standard ideograph, so its primary function is to preserve historical text and data integrity rather than to introduce a distinct semantic meaning.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA4C
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	"社" U+793E CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	社
HTML Hex Encoding	社
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA4C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA4C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa4c

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	"社" U+793E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"社" U+793E 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+793E
kIRG_JSource	J3-7933
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+793E
kJIS0213	1,89,19
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13348+32.3.5 C+13348+113.5.3
kRSUnicode	113.3
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	J