U+FA3F "憎" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA3F "憎" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a rare and specialized glyph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which exists primarily to preserve roundtrip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards like JIS X 0208. This particular ideograph corresponds to a kanji used in historical or stylized contexts, though its exact common use case is obscure and it is not typically employed in modern standard Chinese or Japanese writing. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that legacy documents or databases that reference this specific character can be accurately converted and displayed without loss of information, even though it is often a duplicate of a later, more standardized unified ideograph.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA3F
Version Added	3.2
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	"憎" U+618E CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	憎
HTML Hex Encoding	憎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA8 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA3F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA3F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa3f

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	"憎" U+618E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"憎" U+618E 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+618E
kIRG_JSource	J3-745E
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+618E
kJIS0213	1,84,62
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13363+61.3.12
kRSUnicode	61.12
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	J