U+FA5A "署" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA5A "署" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility block, specifically representing a variant or duplicate form of a standard East Asian character. It is included in Unicode for roundtrip compatibility with older character encoding standards, such as Japan's JIS X 0208, and corresponds to the same meaning or function as its canonical counterpart, which is a simpler or more common representation of the Chinese/Japanese character for a specific concept or word. This character is not intended for use in new text but exists to preserve the exact mapping from legacy systems, and it shares its semantic identity with a unified CJK ideograph in the main CJK Unified Ideographs block.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA5A
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	"署" U+7F72 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	署
HTML Hex Encoding	署
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA5A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA5A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa5a

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	"署" U+7F72 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"署" U+7F72 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+7F72
kIRG_JSource	J3-7A3A
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+7F72
kJIS0213	1,90,26
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13353+122.5.9
kRSUnicode	122.8
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	J