U+FA79 "啕" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA79 "啕" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character that belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode primarily to preserve round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards such as JIS X 0213, where it represents a variant form of a standard CJK unified ideograph. Specifically, this character is a duplicate or variant of the CJK unified ideograph U+8FBA, which corresponds to the Chinese character meaning "edge" or "border" (often simplified as 边). Its inclusion allows text converted from older systems to retain its original visual form without loss of information, though in modern usage it is often redundant with its unified counterpart and is not recommended for general text unless preserving historical encoding fidelity is necessary.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA79
Version Added	4.1
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	"啕" U+5555 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	啕
HTML Hex Encoding	啕
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA79
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA79
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa79

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	"啕" U+5555 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"啕" U+5555 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+5555
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-39EF
kRSUnicode	30.8
kTotalStrokes	11