U+FA2A "飯" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA2A "飯" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that represents a variant form of the standard Chinese character for "rice" or "meal," typically written as 飯 in traditional script. This character belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode primarily to preserve the identity of characters used in older character set standards, such as those from Japanese industrial standards or Chinese encoding systems, to ensure round-trip conversion fidelity. In this case, U+FA2A is a duplicate or alternate glyph for the more common character U+98EF, and its use is generally discouraged in favor of the unified CJK Unified Ideographs version, though it may appear in legacy text or specialized font contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA2A
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	"飯" U+98EF CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	飯
HTML Hex Encoding	飯
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA8 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA2A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA2A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa2a

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	"飯" U+98EF CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"飯" U+98EF 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+98EF
kDefinition	cooked rice; food; meal
kIBMJapan	FBF6
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-030240
kIRG_USource	UTC-00933
kJapaneseKun	MESHI
kJapaneseOn	HAN BON
kKorean	PAN
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+8699+184.9.4
kRSUnicode	184.4
kTotalStrokes	13