U+FA7C "塚" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA7C "塚" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character found within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, representing a historical or variant form of a Chinese character that has been unified under a standard CJK Unified Ideograph in modern usage. This specific ideograph is a compatibility character, meaning it was included in Unicode primarily to preserve round-trip compatibility with older East Asian encoding standards, such as certain Japanese or Chinese character sets, where it appeared with a distinct shape or usage. It is rarely used in contemporary text and is considered a duplicate mapping, with its modern equivalent being a different codepoint in the main CJK Unified Ideographs block, serving as a bridge for legacy data migration rather than representing a unique semantic meaning.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA7C
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	"塚" U+585A CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	塚
HTML Hex Encoding	塚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA7C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA7C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa7c

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	"塚" U+585A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"塚" U+585A 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+585A
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3BEE
kRSUnicode	32.10
kTotalStrokes	12