U+FA06 "暴" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA06 "暴" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specific encoded glyph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was originally included in Unicode to maintain round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character set standards like CNS 11643 and JIS X 0213, where these characters may have distinct or variant forms not found in the standard Unified CJK Ideographs. This particular character is a compatibility variant of the ordinary CJK Unified Ideograph U+66B4 (暴, meaning "violent" or "sudden"), but its visual representation may differ in shape or stroke order due to historical encoding differences. In modern text processing, the use of U+FA06 is generally discouraged in favor of the unified form U+66B4, as compatibility characters can cause issues with font support, text search, and normalization.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA06
Version Added	1.1
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	"暴" U+66B4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	暴
HTML Hex Encoding	暴
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA8 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA06
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA06
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa06

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	"暴" U+66B4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"暴" U+66B4 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+66B4
kDefinition	violent, brutal, tyrannical
kHangul	포:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-785B
kKorean	PHO
kRSUnicode	72.11
kTotalStrokes	15