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
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
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 |