U+FA4F "祐" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA4F "祐" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specialized Chinese character encoded in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was designed primarily for compatibility with older character sets or legacy systems like Japanese industrial standards. Visually, it represents a variant form of the standard CJK unified ideograph for "blessing" or "divine aid" (related to the character 祐), but its usage in modern text is rare, as it is considered a duplicate or alternative glyph that has been superseded by its unified counterpart in most contemporary digital fonts. Despite its limited practical application, this character serves as a historical reference within the Unicode standard, ensuring that documents created with older encoding systems can be accurately represented without loss of data.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA4F
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 "祐" U+7950 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 祐
HTML Hex Encoding 祐
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA9 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA4F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA4F
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa4f

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 "祐" U+7950 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "祐" U+7950 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 977.402
kCompatibilityVariant U+7950
kIRG_JSource J3-7938
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010
kJIS0213 1,89,24
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+13391+113.5.5
kRSUnicode 113.5
kTotalStrokes 10
kUnihanCore2020 J