U+FA78 "喝" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA78 "喝" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph used in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) writing systems, specifically included in the Unicode standard to represent a variant form of an existing CJK Unified Ideograph, mainly for roundtrip compatibility with older character encoding standards like CNS 11643 or Japanese industrial standards. This character is positioned within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which contains characters that were encoded to preserve the exact shape and usage from legacy character sets, even though they may have identical semantics to other Unicode CJK characters. U+FA78 itself corresponds to the character for "gush" or "spurt" in Japanese, and its primary purpose is to ensure that text from older systems can be converted to Unicode without loss of information, though it is generally discouraged for new text creation in favor of its unified counterpart.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA78
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 "喝" U+559D CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 喝
HTML Hex Encoding 喝
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA9 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA78
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA78
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa78

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 "喝" U+559D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "喝" U+559D 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+559D
kIRG_KPSource KP1-39E5
kRSUnicode 30.9
kTotalStrokes 11