U+FA39 "" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+FA39 "" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a special glyph originating from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was primarily designed to encode characters from legacy standards to ensure round-trip compatibility with older Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) character set implementations. This particular character represents a variant or duplicate form of a standard CJK Unified Ideograph, specifically a variant of the character "祹" or a similar component, and is not generally used in modern, standard writing systems. Its inclusion in Unicode is a technical necessity for preserving the original mappings of pre-Unicode character sets, such as those found in earlier industry standards or software, rather than for common textual use. As a result, the character often appears only in specialized contexts like historical text conversion, font development, or database interoperability where exact representation of legacy data is required.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
塀
HTML Hex Encoding
塀
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xA8 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFA39
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FA39
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufa39

Unihan Properties

kCompatibilityVariant
U+5840
kIRG_JSource
J3-2F5A
kJIS0213
1,15,58
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+13384+32.3.11
kRSUnicode
32.9
kTotalStrokes
14
kJapaneseNewVariant
U+5840