U+FA9C "煮" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA9C "煮" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a glyph that belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode primarily to support roundtrip conversion with older legacy East Asian character sets, particularly those used in Korean and Japanese computing systems. This specific character represents a rare or variant ideograph that may not have a standardized modern usage in contemporary Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text, as its compatibility form was encoded for historical or interoperability purposes rather than for regular typographic representation. Its appearance and meaning are often tied to a specific source standard, such as the Korean KS X 1001 character set, and it may lack a clearly defined unified CJK equivalent in modern Unicode.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA9C
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	"煮" U+716E CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	煮
HTML Hex Encoding	煮
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA9C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA9C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa9c

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	"煮" U+716E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"煮" U+716E 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+716E
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-5559
kRSUnicode	86.8
kTotalStrokes	12