U+FA8D "揄" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA8D "揄" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, encoded specifically to represent a unified version of a Chinese character found in historical or legacy character set standards, such as the Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) C 6226-1983. Its primary purpose is to ensure roundtrip compatibility between modern Unicode text and older character encoding systems, although it is generally recommended for use only in such contexts, as the same character is typically represented by a more standard CJK Unified Ideograph in contemporary text, such as U+7E6B. The character itself is visually identical or very similar to its unified counterpart, but its unique code point serves a specific interoperability function rather than conveying a distinct meaning.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA8D
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	"揄" U+63C4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	揄
HTML Hex Encoding	揄
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA8D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA8D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa8d

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	"揄" U+63C4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"揄" U+63C4 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+63C4
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-469B
kRSUnicode	64.9
kTotalStrokes	12