U+FA6A "頻" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA6A "頻" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was encoded to provide roundtrip mapping compatibility with legacy East Asian character set standards, such as those used in older Japanese or Korean systems. This particular character, though visually similar to the standard CJK Unified Ideograph for the Chinese character meaning "frequent" or "repeated" (U+6A6A), exists in the compatibility zone to preserve exact mappings from older encoding schemes where it was assigned a separate code point. In modern Unicode usage, it is generally considered a duplicate of its unified counterpart, and its primary purpose is to maintain data integrity when converting text from older legacy systems that did not use the unified character model.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA6A
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	"頻" U+983B CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	頻
HTML Hex Encoding	頻
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA6A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA6A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa6a

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	"頻" U+983B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"頻" U+983B 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+983B
kIRG_JSource	J3-7D7B
kJIS0213	1,93,91
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+7788+181.9.7
kRSUnicode	181.7
kTotalStrokes	16