U+FA59 "繁" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA59 "繁" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) block, specifically encoded to represent a variant form of the character "繁" (which means numerous, complicated, or to multiply in Chinese and Japanese). It originates from the Unified Repertoire and Ordering (URO) of CJK characters, but is placed in the Compatibility Ideographs section to preserve roundtrip convertibility with older standard character sets and encoding systems, such as those used in certain Japanese industrial or governmental databases. While it visually resembles its standard CJK Unified Ideograph counterpart, U+FA59 is considered a duplicate character for modern text processing purposes, and its inclusion ensures that documents created with legacy encodings can be correctly mapped to and from Unicode without loss of information.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA59
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	"繁" U+7E41 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	繁
HTML Hex Encoding	繁
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA59
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA59
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa59

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	"繁" U+7E41 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"繁" U+7E41 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+7E41
kIRG_JSource	J3-7A33
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+7E41
kJIS0213	1,90,19
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13376+120.6.11
kRSUnicode	120.11
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	J