U+FA7E "奄" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA7E "奄" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph originating from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) block, specifically included in Unicode to maintain roundtrip compatibility with older character encodings such as JIS X 0213. Its shape generally corresponds to a standard CJK unified ideograph, but it is encoded separately due to minor typographic or source-specific variations, most closely resembling the character "奄" which is a variant form of a common kanji. This character is rarely used in modern text and primarily serves archival or legacy support purposes, allowing older documents to be represented without loss of information.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA7E
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	"奄" U+5944 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	奄
HTML Hex Encoding	奄
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA9 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA7E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA7E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa7e

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	"奄" U+5944 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"奄" U+5944 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+5944
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3CAF
kRSUnicode	37.5
kTotalStrokes	8