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Glyph for U+798F
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U+798F CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​798F

U+798F was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+4E00 to U+9FFF CJK Unified Ideographs in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as happiness, good fortune, blessing. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is .

The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+798F offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with 2 other glyphs.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The Chinese character fu (), meaning 'fortune' or 'good luck' is represented both as a Chinese ideograph and, at times, pictorially, in one of its homophonous forms. It is often found on a figurine of the male god of the same name, one of the trio of "star gods" , , and Shòu.

Mounted fu are a widespread Chinese tradition associated with Chinese New Year and can be seen on the entrances of many Chinese homes worldwide. The characters are generally printed on a square piece of paper or stitched in fabric. The practice is universal among Chinese people regardless of socioeconomic status, and dates to at least the Song dynasty (960 – 1279 CE).

When displayed as a Chinese ideograph, fu is often displayed upside-down on diagonal red squares. The reasoning is based on a wordplay: in nearly all varieties of Chinese, the words for ; dào; 'upside-down' and ; dào; 'to arrive' are homophonous. Therefore, the phrase 'upside-down fu' sounds nearly identical to the phrase 'good luck arrives'. Pasting the character upside-down on a door or doorpost thus translates into a wish for prosperity to descend upon a dwelling.

Another story states that posting the character upside-down originates with the family of a 19th-century prince of the Qing dynasty. The story states that on one Chinese New Year's Eve, or 除夕; Chúxī, the prince's servants played a practical joke by pasting fu characters throughout his royal dwelling. One illiterate servant inadvertently placed the characters upside-down. The prince was said to have been furious upon seeing the characters, but a quick-thinking servant humbly calmed the prince by saying that the occurrence must have been a sign of prosperity "arriving" upon his household by using the above wordplay.

Bats () are among the most ubiquitous of all Chinese symbols, with the same symbolic meaning as the phono-semantic compound of fu. A less common match is 麩子; fūzi; 'bran', not only because, according to Welch, "depictions of grain have been used throughout Chinese history to represent fecundity", but also in concert with other grains with related homophonous wordplay—for example, is a syllable that can refer either to ; 'grain' or ; 'profit'.

Usage of fu in various forms, such as in calligraphy, seals, paper crafts, and posters, represents the desire that one's good luck will be expansive and multifaceted. Chinese textiles and ceramics often found transcribe this felicitous message by portraying random numbers of bats in flight, sometimes can be more than a hundred.

Since 2017, the version 10 of the Unicode Standard features a rounded version of the character in the "Enclosed Ideographic Supplement" block, at code point U+1F260 🉠 ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR FU.

Representations

System Representation
31119
UTF-8 E7 A6 8F
UTF-16 79 8F
UTF-32 00 00 79 8F
URL-Quoted %E7%A6%8F
HTML hex reference 福
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 福
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) DC D8
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) CA A1
Pīnyīn

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-798F
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Han
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+798F CJK Unified Ideograph-798F
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+798F CJK Unified Ideograph-798F
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+798F CJK Unified Ideograph-798F
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+798F CJK Unified Ideograph-798F
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+798F CJK Unified Ideograph-798F
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+798F CJK Unified Ideograph-798F
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+798F CJK Unified Ideograph-798F
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+798F CJK Unified Ideograph-798F
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+798F CJK Unified Ideograph-798F
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+798F CJK Unified Ideograph-798F
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+798F CJK Unified Ideograph-798F
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+798F CJK Unified Ideograph-798F
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+798F CJK Unified Ideograph-798F
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) BAD6
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 214E76
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-697D
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-697D
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) IFMRW
kCantonese (kCantonese) fuk1
kCowles (kCowles) 867
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 1265.230
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) happiness, good fortune, blessing
kEACC (kEACC) 214E76
kFenn (kFenn) 816B
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 140.11
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 3126.6
kFrequency (kFrequency) 3
kGB0 (kGB0) 2403
kGB1 (kGB1) 2403
kGSR (kGSR) 0933d
kGradeLevel (kGradeLevel) 3
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 2881
kHanYu (kHanYu) 42404.030 42405.070
kHangul (kHangul) 복:0E
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) fú(199)
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 42404.030:fú,fù
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 1265.230
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 42404.030
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0845.020
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-3823
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-BAD6
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-4A21
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-DEC3
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-5C58
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-697D
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-6128
kJapanese (kJapanese) フク フウ さいわい
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) SAIWAI HIMOROGI
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) FUKU
kJis0 (kJis0) 4201
kJoyoKanji (kJoyoKanji) 2010
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0845.020
kKarlgren (kKarlgren) 52
kKorean (kKorean) POK
kKoreanEducationHanja (kKoreanEducationHanja) 2007
kLau (kLau) 755
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 4395
kMandarin (kMandarin)
kMatthews (kMatthews) 1978
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 586
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ018896 MJ030213:FE00 MJ018896:E0102 MJ030213:E0103 MJ018897:E0104
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 24768' 24768:FE00 24768':E0102 24768:E0103 24805:E0104
kNelson (kNelson) 3256
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 398
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+3569+113.4.9
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 113.9
kSBGY (kSBGY) 453.04
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 481.07
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) fú粵fuk1
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:3033
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 101.110:fú
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 4395
kTang (kTang) biuk
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 13
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) phúc
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 0335.030:fú
Xerox Code (kXerox) 244:044