U+FA89 "憎" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA89 "憎" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, encoded primarily to maintain round trip compatibility with older East Asian character set standards, such as certain Japanese industrial standards or Chinese national standards, where it represents a variant form of the more common character for "chrysanthemum". While it visually corresponds to the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+83CA (菊), its separate encoding in the compatibility zone means it exists for legacy data interchange and is not typically used in modern text, as most systems prefer the unified character. This character is thus a historical artifact of character set mapping, serving to preserve the specific glyph shape or encoding position from older systems without introducing new semantic meaning.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA89
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	"憎" U+618E CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	憎
HTML Hex Encoding	憎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA89
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA89
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa89

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	"憎" U+618E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"憎" U+618E 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+618E
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-43FF
kRSUnicode	61.12
kTotalStrokes	14