U+FA74 "" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Browser Default

U+FA74 "" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically included for roundtrip compatibility with legacy character encoding standards. It represents a variant or duplicate form of a standard CJK unified ideograph, typically corresponding to a character that exists elsewhere in the Unicode standard for simplified or traditional Chinese, Japanese, or Korean usage. This particular character, which appears visually similar to a Chinese or Japanese kanji, is not recommended for new text creation due to its compatibility nature; instead, users should prefer the canonical, unified version (such as U+8C4A or similar) when possible. Its primary function is to preserve the integrity of older encoded text without introducing mapping errors when converting from older systems to Unicode.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
充
HTML Hex Encoding
充
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xA9 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFA74
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FA74
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufa74

Unihan Properties

kCompatibilityVariant
U+5145
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-3714
kRSUnicode
10.4
kTotalStrokes
5