U+FA77 "勺" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA77 "勺" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph originally included in the Unicode standard to preserve the shape and meaning of a CJK character used in Japanese and Chinese text, specifically a variant form of the more common character for "sake" or "rice wine" (often written as 酒). It was encoded as part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which contains characters that were unified with other ideographs in the main CJK Unified Ideographs block to maintain round-trip compatibility with older legacy character set standards. This character is not typically used in modern writing but may appear in historical texts, documents, or databases where the exact graphical form was necessary to avoid data loss during conversion from older encodings.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA77
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	"勺" U+52FA CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	勺
HTML Hex Encoding	勺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA77
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA77
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa77

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	"勺" U+52FA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"勺" U+52FA 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+52FA
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3862
kRSUnicode	20.1
kTotalStrokes	3