U+FA8C "戴" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA8C "戴" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specific ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was originally defined to maintain roundtrip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as those used in Japan, China, and Korea. This particular character, represented by a unique glyph, is a variant or duplicate of a standard CJK Unified Ideograph and is rarely used in modern digital text, primarily existing in legacy documents or specialized contexts where preserving the exact historical character form is required.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA8C
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	"戴" U+6234 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	戴
HTML Hex Encoding	戴
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA8C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA8C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa8c

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	"戴" U+6234 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"戴" U+6234 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+6234
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4505
kRSUnicode	62.13
kTotalStrokes	17