U+FA53 "禎" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA53 "禎" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) block, specifically classified under the Compatibility Ideographs subset, which was included in Unicode primarily to preserve roundtrip conversions with older character encoding standards like JIS X 0208. This particular character corresponds to a variant or duplicate form of a standard CJK unified ideograph, encoding a glyph that appears in pre existing legacy character sets but is not considered a distinct new character in modern usage. Its purpose is to allow text from older software or documents to be represented accurately, ensuring that the original visual form of the character is retained rather than being mapped to a unified version, which could cause formatting or meaning changes in specialized contexts such as Japanese kanji dictionaries or historical texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA53
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 "禎" U+798E CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 禎
HTML Hex Encoding 禎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA9 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA53
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA53
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa53

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 "禎" U+798E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "禎" U+798E 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 983.304
kCompatibilityVariant U+798E
kIRG_JSource J3-7940
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010
kJIS0213 1,89,32
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+13371+113.5.9
kRSUnicode 113.9
kTotalStrokes 14
kUnihanCore2020 J