U+FA5E "艹" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA5E "艹" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a Han character classified under the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, included in Unicode primarily to ensure round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards. Its structure is a variant form, or z-variant, of the more common ideograph 祚, which is associated with meanings of blessing, happiness, or a throne. This specific glyph is rarely used in modern standard text and was encoded to preserve the exact representation of characters found in legacy character sets, such as those in Japanese or Chinese computing environments from the 1980s and 1990s.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA5E
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 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA5E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA5E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa5e

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	J4-7575
kJIS0213	2,85,85
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14198+140.4.0
kRSUnicode	140.0
kTotalStrokes	4