U+FA7A "喙" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA7A "喙" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a rare and specialized glyph found in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Compatibility Ideographs block, which was designed to include characters from legacy character sets and older industry standards for the purpose of round-trip compatibility with those systems. This particular ideograph represents a variant or duplicate of a standard CJK unified ideograph, meaning its semantic meaning and pronunciation correspond to an existing character in the main CJK Unified Ideographs block, but it retains a unique encoding due to its original appearance in a compatibility standard such as the Japanese JIS or Korean KS codes. Despite its inclusion in Unicode, it is generally not recommended for use in modern text, as it can cause confusion with its unified counterpart and is primarily preserved for processing historical data or documents that originally encoded it in a pre-Unicode format.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA7A
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 "喙" U+5599 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 喙
HTML Hex Encoding 喙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA9 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA7A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA7A
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa7a

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 "喙" U+5599 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "喙" U+5599 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+5599
kIRG_KPSource KP1-3A42
kRSUnicode 30.9
kTotalStrokes 12