U+FAA0 "猪" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAA0 "猪" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a glyph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically designed to represent a variant form of a Chinese character for compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as those used in legacy Japanese or Korean text. It is a duplicate or alternate shape of a standard CJK Unified Ideograph, preserved in Unicode to maintain round-trip conversion fidelity with pre-existing coded character sets, rather than being a unique or commonly used character in modern writing. The character itself does not carry a distinct meaning separate from its equivalent unified ideograph, and its use is primarily limited to historical or specialized text processing contexts where the original source encoding must be preserved exactly.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAA0
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	"猪" U+732A CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	猪
HTML Hex Encoding	猪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAA0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAA0
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufaa0

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	"猪" U+732A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"猪" U+732A 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+732A
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-57FE
kRSUnicode	94.8
kTotalStrokes	11