U+FA83 "廙" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FA83 "廙" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specific character within the Unicode standard's CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was designed to encode a limited set of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) characters that were originally defined for compatibility with earlier character encoding standards, such as certain Japanese industrial standards. This particular ideograph represents a distinct glyph or variant form that is considered a compatibility character, meaning it duplicates a character encoded elsewhere in Unicode (typically in the unified CJK Unified Ideographs block) but is retained here to ensure round-trip conversion with older text systems. The character itself is derived from a specific source mapping in the CJK Compatibility set and is not intended for general modern use, as its meaning and usage are identical to its unified counterpart, serving primarily for legacy data preservation and conversion purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+FA83
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 "廙" U+5ED9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 廙
HTML Hex Encoding 廙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAA 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFA83
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FA83
C/C++/Java Escape \ufa83

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 "廙" U+5ED9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "廙" U+5ED9 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+5ED9
kIRG_KPSource KP1-416B
kRSUnicode 53.12
kTotalStrokes 14