U+FAA6 "益" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAA6 "益" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specialized character within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was designed to maintain round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards like CNS 11643 and the IBM 932 standard. This particular ideograph represents a specific Chinese character or variant form that existed in those legacy encodings but is not included in the standard set of unified CJK characters; its usage is generally discouraged in modern text as it is intended for preservation and conversion purposes only. In practice, U+FAA6 may appear identical or very similar to a standard CJK unified ideograph, and its exact meaning or reading depends on the historical context of the encoded character it was mapped from.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAA6
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	"益" U+76CA CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	益
HTML Hex Encoding	益
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAA6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAA6
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufaa6

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	"益" U+76CA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"益" U+76CA 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+76CA
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-5D48
kRSUnicode	108.5
kTotalStrokes	10