U+FA5F "著" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA5F "著" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a variant form of the standard Chinese character for "zhe" or "zhu," which generally connotes action, such as to wear or to begin, though its specific usage depends on context and regional orthography. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a collection of characters encoded primarily for roundtrip conversion with older East Asian character sets, where it serves as a duplicate or simplified variant of a common ideograph. Unlike its canonical equivalent U+8457, this compatibility character is rarely used in modern text and exists mainly to preserve legacy encoding mappings, making it a historical artifact within the Unicode standard.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA5F
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	"著" U+8457 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	著
HTML Hex Encoding	著
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA5F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA5F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa5f

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	"著" U+8457 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"著" U+8457 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+8457
kIRG_JSource	J3-7B27
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+8457
kJIS0213	1,91,07
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13367+140.3.9
kRSUnicode	140.8
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	J