U+FA5D "艹" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA5D "艹" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was primarily included in Unicode to preserve roundtrip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as IBM's or other proprietary formats. This specific character represents a variant or duplicate form of a more common CJK Unified Ideograph, often with a slightly different visual shape or stroke order that was used in historical or legacy documents. Its primary purpose is to allow existing text in these older encodings to be converted to and from Unicode without losing the exact glyph representation, though modern recommendations typically favor using the standard unified ideograph for new content.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA5D
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	"艹" U+8279 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	艹
HTML Hex Encoding	艹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA5D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA5D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa5d

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	"艹" U+8279 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"艹" U+8279 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+8279
kIRG_JSource	J4-7574
kJIS0213	2,85,84
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14199+140.4.0
kRSUnicode	140.0
kTotalStrokes	4