U+FA70 "並" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA70 "並" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specific character within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was created to represent a variant or duplicate of a standard CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph for the purpose of compatibility with older character encoding standards, such as certain Japanese JIS (Japanese Industrial Standards) character sets. This particular character is not a unique, independent ideograph but rather a compatibility mapping that corresponds to the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+79B8, which means it serves to preserve the exact shape or positioning of the original character in legacy systems where it appeared differently. Its existence in Unicode ensures that text converted from those older formats can be represented accurately without losing its intended visual form, though it is generally not recommended for new text due to the availability of its standard counterpart.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA70
Version Added 4.1
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 "並" U+4E26 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 並
HTML Hex Encoding 並
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA9 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA70
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA70
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa70

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 "並" U+4E26 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "並" U+4E26 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+4E26
kIRG_KPSource KP1-341D
kRSUnicode 1.7
kTotalStrokes 9