U+FA9A "漢" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA9A "漢" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a CJK compatibility ideograph located in the Supplementary Ideographic Plane, specifically designated for compatibility with legacy character sets used in East Asian computing, such as those from Japan or Korea. This character represents a rare or variant form of a Chinese character, primarily used in historical or specialized text processing to map perfectly to a distinct, non-standard encoding, ensuring faithful reproduction of original documents without altering their typographic appearance. Unlike standard CJK Unified Ideographs, it is not recommended for general use in modern writing, as it duplicates the semantic meaning of another, more common character, but it serves an important purpose in preserving digital fidelity across different systems and decades-old software environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA9A
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	"漢" U+6F22 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	漢
HTML Hex Encoding	漢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA9A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA9A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa9a

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	"漢" U+6F22 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"漢" U+6F22 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+6F22
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-5336
kRSUnicode	85.11
kTotalStrokes	13