U+FA50 "祖" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA50 "祖" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically designed for compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as those used in Japanese, Chinese, or Korean computing systems. This particular character represents a variant or duplicate form of a standard CJK unified ideograph, often corresponding to the character "祖" which means "ancestor" or "founder" in various East Asian languages. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that text encoded in legacy systems can be accurately preserved and displayed without loss of meaning, though it is generally advised to use the unified standard ideograph (U+7956) for most modern applications, as the compatibility variant may cause issues with text matching or processing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA50
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	"祖" U+7956 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	祖
HTML Hex Encoding	祖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA50
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA50
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa50

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	"祖" U+7956 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"祖" U+7956 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	977.601
kCompatibilityVariant	U+7956
kIRG_JSource	J3-7939
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+7956
kJIS0213	1,89,25
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13359+113.5.5
kRSUnicode	113.5
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	J