U+FA8A "慠" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA8A "慠" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character included in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was originally encoded for round trip compatibility with older East Asian character sets like those used in legacy Japanese or Korean standards. This particular ideograph is a duplicate or variant form of a standard CJK Unified Ideograph, meaning it represents the same semantic and phonetic value as its unified counterpart but preserves a distinct glyph shape from pre Unicode encoding practices. It is rarely used in modern digital text, as most systems now prefer the unified versions, and its presence in Unicode primarily serves to ensure that documents encoded in older formats can be converted without loss of information.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA8A
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	"慠" U+6160 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	慠
HTML Hex Encoding	慠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA8A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA8A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa8a

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	"慠" U+6160 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"慠" U+6160 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+6160
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4410
kRSUnicode	61.11
kTotalStrokes	13