U+FA68 "難" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA68 "難" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a special ideograph used in Japanese and Chinese texts, primarily representing the character meaning "difficult" or "trouble." It is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode to preserve the original forms of characters that appear in older or legacy character sets, such as those used in Japanese kanji standards or historical encoding systems, rather than for general modern usage. This particular character corresponds to the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+96E3 "難" but is retained to support specific compatibility needs, such as document interchange or font rendering in systems that rely on older character mappings.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA68
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	"難" U+96E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	難
HTML Hex Encoding	難
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA68
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA68
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa68

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	"難" U+96E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"難" U+96E3 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+96E3
kIRG_JSource	J3-7D63
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+96E3
kJIS0213	1,93,67
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13374+172.8.11
kRSUnicode	172.11
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	J