U+FA96 "殺" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA96 "殺" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was created to encode characters that are considered duplicates or variant forms of standard CJK Unified Ideographs but were included for compatibility with older character sets and standards. Specifically, it represents a single Chinese/Japanese character that has a corresponding unified version elsewhere in Unicode, and its inclusion ensures that text from legacy systems can be mapped and displayed accurately without losing the original glyph shape. This character is rarely used in modern writing, as the preferred form is typically the unified ideograph it corresponds to, making U+FA96 primarily relevant for historical data interchange and archival purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA96
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	"殺" U+6BBA CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	殺
HTML Hex Encoding	殺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA96
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA96
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa96

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	"殺" U+6BBA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"殺" U+6BBA 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+6BBA
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4FA9
kRSUnicode	79.7
kTotalStrokes	10