U+FA85 "徭" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA85 "徭" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in the Unicode standard to preserve the roundtrip fidelity of character mappings from older East Asian character encoding standards, such as CNS 11643, to Unicode. Its specific glyph represents a variant or duplicate of a regular CJK unified ideograph, typically a traditional Chinese character used in historical or specialized texts, and is not intended for general modern use. This compatibility character exists alongside its unified counterpart to prevent data loss or corruption when converting between different legacy encodings, though modern applications generally prefer the standard unified CJK ideograph for new text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA85
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	"徭" U+5FAD CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	徭
HTML Hex Encoding	徭
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA85
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA85
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa85

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	"徭" U+5FAD CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"徭" U+5FAD 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+5FAD
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4244
kRSUnicode	60.10
kTotalStrokes	12