U+FA6C "𤋮" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA6C "𤋮" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph used in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) block, specifically designated for roundtrip compatibility with older character encoding standards where it represents a variant of a common Han character. This particular codepoint corresponds to the Japanese kanji for "O" (尾), meaning "tail" or "end," and was included to ensure that text encoded in legacy systems like Shift JIS or JIS X 0208 could be converted to Unicode without loss. As a compatibility character, its use is generally discouraged in modern text in favor of the standard unified CJK character, as it duplicates functionality and may hinder uniform text processing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA6C
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	"𤋮" U+242EE CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𤋮
HTML Hex Encoding	𤋮
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA6C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA6C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa6c

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	"𤋮" U+242EE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𤋮" U+242EE 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+242EE
kIRG_JSource	JARIB-7563
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14281+86.4.10
kRSUnicode	86.10
kTotalStrokes	13