U+FA73 "侀" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FA73 "侀" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which contains characters that were originally encoded for compatibility with older East Asian character set standards, such as those from Japan, China, or Korea, to preserve round-trip conversion between systems. This specific ideograph represents a variant or duplicate of a CJK Unified Ideograph, often a simplified or alternative form of a standard character, and its function is to maintain backward compatibility with legacy text rather than to introduce a new or unique meaning. In practice, U+FA73 is considered a duplicate or compatibility character, meaning it is visually identical to another encoded character, and its use is generally discouraged in modern systems that support the unified CJK block. The character itself is rarely used independently for semantic content, but rather appears in older digital documents or fonts designed to handle specific historic encoding formats.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
侀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
侀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xA9 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFA73 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FA73 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ufa73 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCompatibilityVariant |
U+4F80 |
| kIRG_KPSource |
KP1-35DE |
| kRSUnicode |
9.6 |
| kTotalStrokes |
10 |