U+FA6B "恵" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA6B "恵" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph included in the Unicode standard primarily to preserve the roundtrip conversion integrity of text encoded in older East Asian character sets, such as Japanese Shift JIS or Korean KS X 1001. This character typically represents a variant form of a standard CJK Unified Ideograph, often used in traditional or historical contexts, but it is distinct from its unified counterpart due to minor graphical differences or legacy encoding requirements. It falls under the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, meaning it is not recommended for general text interchange, with modern practice favoring its unified equivalent for most applications.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA6B
Version Added	5.2
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	"恵" U+6075 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	恵
HTML Hex Encoding	恵
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA6B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA6B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa6b

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	"恵" U+6075 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"恵" U+6075 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+6075
kIRG_JSource	JARIB-7547
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13740+61.4.7
kRSUnicode	61.7
kTotalStrokes	11