U+FAA5 "瘟" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAA5 "瘟" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the Unicode standard’s CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, originally included for round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character set standards, such as certain industry-specific or vendor-defined extensions. This character represents a specific Chinese or Japanese character form that might map to a standard CJK Unified Ideograph but, as a compatibility character, is primarily used for preserving text fidelity when converting from legacy encodings. It does not have a unique, independent meaning in modern usage and is typically considered a duplicate or variant of a unified ideograph defined elsewhere, making it a technical artifact of encoding history rather than a distinct lexical element.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAA5
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	"瘟" U+761F CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	瘟
HTML Hex Encoding	瘟
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAA5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAA5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufaa5

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	"瘟" U+761F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"瘟" U+761F 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+761F
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-5BF9
kRSUnicode	104.9
kTotalStrokes	14