U+FA58 "縉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA58 "縉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specialized character from the Unicode CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, designed primarily for compatibility with legacy East Asian character encoding standards, such as those used in older Japanese, Chinese, or Korean text systems. This particular ideograph represents a variant or duplicate of a standard CJK unified ideograph, often corresponding to a glyph shape or usage that was necessary for round-trip conversion with pre-Unicode encoding formats. While it may appear visually identical or similar to a common character like U+308C "れ" (the Japanese hiragana character "re"), U+FA58 is a distinct code point preserved to ensure that historical documents and software can retain their original appearance without loss of meaning or formatting. Today, it is seldom used in modern digital text, but it remains an important part of Unicode's commitment to encoding all characters from established character sets, supporting data integrity and back

General Properties

Code Point U+FA58
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 "縉" U+7E09 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 縉
HTML Hex Encoding 縉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA9 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA58
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA58
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa58

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 "縉" U+7E09 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "縉" U+7E09 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+7E09
kIRG_JSource J4-7450
kJIS0213 2,84,48
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+18366+120.6.10
kRSUnicode 120.10
kTotalStrokes 16