U+FA69 "響" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA69 "響" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically representing a variant or duplicate form of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph for the character meaning "echo" or "sound" (usually corresponding to U+97FF 響). This character was included in Unicode primarily to maintain round-trip compatibility with older character encoding standards, such as certain Japanese and Chinese industry standards (e.g., JIS X 0213 or CNS 11643), where it appeared as a distinct glyph despite being semantically identical to its unified counterpart. As a compatibility ideograph, it is not recommended for use in new text, as modern Unicode practice favors the unified version for consistent digital representation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA69
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	"響" U+97FF CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	響
HTML Hex Encoding	響
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA69
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA69
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa69

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	"響" U+97FF CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"響" U+97FF 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+97FF
kIRG_JSource	J3-7D76
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+97FF
kJIS0213	1,93,86
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13337+180.9.13
kRSUnicode	180.11
kTotalStrokes	22
kUnihanCore2020	J