U+FA56 "節" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA56 "節" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, originally encoded to provide a roundtrip mapping to a specific variant glyph used in older Japanese or Korean character standards, particularly a simplified form of the character 節 (meaning "joint," "node," or "festival"). Its primary purpose is to maintain compatibility with pre-existing character sets and document interchange, rather than to represent a distinct semantic meaning. Because it is a compatibility ideograph, Unicode strongly recommends using the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+7BC0 節 for modern text, as the compatibility version may result in inconsistent rendering or duplication of meaning across different systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA56
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	"節" U+7BC0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	節
HTML Hex Encoding	節
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA56
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA56
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa56

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	"節" U+7BC0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"節" U+7BC0 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+7BC0
kIRG_JSource	J3-7964
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+7BC0
kJIS0213	1,89,68
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13358+118.6.9
kRSUnicode	118.7
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	J