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

Code Point U+FA73
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 "侀" U+4F80 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

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

Full Composition Exclusion Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "侀" U+4F80 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "侀" U+4F80 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+4F80
kIRG_KPSource KP1-35DE
kRSUnicode 9.6
kTotalStrokes 10