U+FA51 "祝" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA51 "祝" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph representing the character for celebration or congratulations, and it corresponds to the standard CJK unified ideograph U+795D "祝". It was included in the Unicode standard as part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block to preserve the original encoding of characters from earlier East Asian character sets, such as Japanese industry standards, where it might appear with a slightly different glyph shape or encoding position than the unified version. In practice, U+FA51 is not intended for general use in modern text, as it is a duplicate of the unified character and is primarily maintained for round-trip compatibility with legacy systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA51
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	"祝" U+795D CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	祝
HTML Hex Encoding	祝
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA51
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA51
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa51

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	"祝" U+795D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"祝" U+795D 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+795D
kIRG_JSource	J3-793B
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+795D
kJIS0213	1,89,27
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13351+113.5.5
kRSUnicode	113.5
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	J