U+FA74 "充" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA74 "充" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically included for roundtrip compatibility with legacy character encoding standards. It represents a variant or duplicate form of a standard CJK unified ideograph, typically corresponding to a character that exists elsewhere in the Unicode standard for simplified or traditional Chinese, Japanese, or Korean usage. This particular character, which appears visually similar to a Chinese or Japanese kanji, is not recommended for new text creation due to its compatibility nature; instead, users should prefer the canonical, unified version (such as U+8C4A or similar) when possible. Its primary function is to preserve the integrity of older encoded text without introducing mapping errors when converting from older systems to Unicode.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA74
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	"充" U+5145 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	充
HTML Hex Encoding	充
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA74
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA74
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa74

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	"充" U+5145 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"充" U+5145 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+5145
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3714
kRSUnicode	10.4
kTotalStrokes	5