U+FA5B "者" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA5B "者" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that represents a variant form of the standard CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) character for "person" or "someone," corresponding to the common character 者 (U+8005). It is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode primarily to preserve roundtrip compatibility with older character encoding standards, such as Japanese JIS X 0213, where this specific shape was used. In modern usage, this character is largely considered unnecessary and is not recommended for new text, as it duplicates the functionality of the standard character and exists mainly for historical or archival data conversion purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA5B
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	"者" U+8005 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	者
HTML Hex Encoding	者
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA5B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA5B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa5b

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	"者" U+8005 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"者" U+8005 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+8005
kIRG_JSource	J3-7A44
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+8005
kJIS0213	1,90,36
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13349+125.4.5
kRSUnicode	125.4
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	J