U+FA99 "滋" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA99 "滋" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specific code point in the Unicode standard that represents a Chinese character form originally included for compatibility with earlier East Asian character encoding standards, such as those used in legacy Japanese or Korean systems. This character belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was designed to preserve the exact shape and usage of characters from older character sets to ensure text conversion and round trip fidelity. Unlike the unified CJK Unified Ideographs, which combine multiple regional variants into a single code point, compatibility ideographs like U+FA99 retain their distinct glyph form for historical or specialized contexts, though they are considered duplicate or variant representations of other standard characters in modern usage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA99
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	"滋" U+6ECB CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	滋
HTML Hex Encoding	滋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA99
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA99
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa99

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	"滋" U+6ECB CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"滋" U+6ECB 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+6ECB
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-52B4
kRSUnicode	85.9
kTotalStrokes	13