U+FA61 "視" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA61 "視" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was encoded primarily for round-trip mapping compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards such as JIS X 0208. This particular character represents a variant glyph of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph for "see" or "view" (視, U+8996), often used in Japanese typography where it appears with a slightly different stroke order or shape, resembling the traditional form with a "目" (eye) component on the bottom. Its purpose in Unicode is to preserve the exact original representation of text converted from legacy systems, though in modern use it is generally discouraged in favor of the unified character U+8996, as the distinction is purely cosmetic and not semantic.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA61
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 "視" U+8996 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 視
HTML Hex Encoding 視
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA9 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA61
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA61
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa61

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 "視" U+8996 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "視" U+8996 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

kCihaiT 1229.603
kCompatibilityVariant U+8996
kIRG_JSource J3-7B79
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010:U+8996
kJIS0213 1,91,89
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+13346+113.5.7 C+13346+147.7.5
kRSUnicode 147.4
kTotalStrokes 12
kUnihanCore2020 J