U+FA6D "舘" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA6D "舘" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) block, specifically representing a variant form of the character that appears in the Unicode standard to maintain round trip compatibility with older encoding standards like JIS X 0208. This character is not intended for general use in modern text but is preserved to ensure that documents encoded in legacy systems can be accurately converted to Unicode without loss of information. It is often classified as a compatibility character, meaning it has a preferred modern equivalent that should be used instead, and its inclusion highlights the historical complexity of East Asian character encoding.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA6D
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	"舘" U+8218 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	舘
HTML Hex Encoding	舘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA6D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA6D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa6d

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	"舘" U+8218 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"舘" U+8218 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+8218
kIRG_JSource	JARIB-762B
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13695+30.3.13
kRSUnicode	30.13
kTotalStrokes	16