U+FA8E "搜" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA8E "搜" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility block, representing a variant or simplified form of a Chinese character used in historical or legacy East Asian encoding systems. It appears as a square ideograph composed of the radical for fire or variant components, and its primary purpose is to map to a standard CJK Unified Ideograph for compatibility with older character sets, though its specific meaning is not independently defined outside of that context.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA8E
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	"搜" U+641C CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	搜
HTML Hex Encoding	搜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA8E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA8E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa8e

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	"搜" U+641C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"搜" U+641C 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+641C
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-46C4
kRSUnicode	64.10
kTotalStrokes	12