U+FA4D "祉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA4D "祉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph encoded in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, representing a variant form of a standard Chinese character used primarily in historical or proprietary character sets, such as those from Japanese industrial standards or older East Asian computing systems. It corresponds to the unified CJK ideograph U+8E44 (in its traditional form) and is considered a duplicate or alternative glyph, included in Unicode mainly to preserve roundtrip compatibility with legacy encoding standards rather than for general modern use. This character explicitly shows the character meaning "to run" or "to hasten" but is rarely needed in contemporary text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA4D
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	"祉" U+7949 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	祉
HTML Hex Encoding	祉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA4D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA4D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa4d

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	"祉" U+7949 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"祉" U+7949 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

kCihaiT	977.303
kCompatibilityVariant	U+7949
kIRG_JSource	J3-7934
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+7949
kJIS0213	1,89,20
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13345+77.4.5 C+13345+113.5.4
kRSUnicode	113.4
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	J