U+FA49 "爫" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA49 "爫" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph originally encoded to match a specific character from a pre existing character set, such as a Japanese vendor standard, which differs in typographic design from its canonical CJK Unified Ideograph counterpart. It represents the same underlying Chinese character as the standard ideograph U+516C "公", meaning public, official, or male, but is preserved in Unicode for round trip compatibility with older text data. This character is retained in the compatibility block to ensure that documents created with legacy encoding systems can be accurately converted to Unicode without loss of information, though modern usage recommends the unified version instead.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA49
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	"爫" U+722B CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	爫
HTML Hex Encoding	爫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA49
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA49
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa49

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	"爫" U+722B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"爫" U+722B 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+722B
kIRG_JSource	J4-7029
kJIS0213	2,80,09
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+15398+87.4.0
kRSUnicode	87.0
kTotalStrokes	4