U+FA2F "隷" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA2F "隷" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a rarely used character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was originally included in Unicode to preserve the roundtrip integrity of text converted from older East Asian character encoding standards, such as certain Japanese industrial standards. This specific character represents a variant or duplicate form of a more common CJK unified ideograph, and it is classified as a compatibility ideograph, meaning it is not intended for general use in modern text but exists to maintain compatibility with legacy systems where this particular glyph shape was encoded differently.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA2F
Version Added	6.1
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	"隷" U+96B7 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	隷
HTML Hex Encoding	隷
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA8 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA2F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA2F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa2f

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	"隷" U+96B7 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"隷" U+96B7 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+96B7
kHangul	예:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6766
kRSUnicode	171.8
kTotalStrokes	16