U+FA54 "穀" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA54 "穀" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that represents a variant form of the CJK character commonly used in Japanese writing, specifically corresponding to the standard character for "grain" or "cereal" (the character 穀). This particular glyph is encoded in the Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode to preserve the exact shapes of characters from older East Asian character sets and standards to ensure round-trip conversion compatibility, rather than representing a separate or additional meaning. Its use is generally discouraged in favor of the unified CJK character U+7A40 "穀", but it may appear in legacy documents, fonts, or certain historical or specialized applications where the precise graphic form is necessary for faithful representation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA54
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	"穀" U+7A40 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	穀
HTML Hex Encoding	穀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA54
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA54
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa54

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	"穀" U+7A40 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"穀" U+7A40 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+7A40
kIRG_JSource	J3-794D
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+7A40
kJIS0213	1,89,45
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13343+79.4.11 C+13343+115.5.10
kRSUnicode	115.10
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	J