U+FAA2 "甆" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAA2 "甆" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specialized glyph within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, designed primarily for roundtrip mapping compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards rather than for general use in modern text. This particular character represents a variant form of a Chinese character that was originally encoded in a legacy standard to avoid losing information when converting between different character sets. Its inclusion in Unicode preserves the ability to accurately transfer data from older systems, though it is generally considered a compatibility character and is not recommended for new text composition, where its standard CJK Unified Ideograph counterpart should be used instead.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAA2
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	"甆" U+7506 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	甆
HTML Hex Encoding	甆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAA2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAA2
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufaa2

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	"甆" U+7506 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"甆" U+7506 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+7506
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-5A5D
kRSUnicode	98.9
kTotalStrokes	14