U+FA9E "爵" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FA9E "爵" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode to maintain round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as those used in the Japanese JIS X 0213 standard. This specific ideograph is a variant form of a CJK Unified Ideograph, meaning it represents the same Chinese/Japanese/Korean character as another standard character but with a slightly different shape or rendering intended for compatibility with legacy text. Its primary purpose is not to introduce a new semantic meaning but to ensure that documents created using older encoding systems can be reliably converted to Unicode and back without loss of information. As a compatibility character, its use in modern typography is generally discouraged in favor of its unified standard counterpart, but it remains available for faithfully representing historical or legacy digital texts.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
爵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
爵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xAA 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFA9E |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FA9E |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ufa9e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCompatibilityVariant |
U+7235 |
| kIRG_KPSource |
KP1-5678 |
| kRSUnicode |
87.14 |
| kTotalStrokes |
17 |