U+FAA8 "直" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAA8 "直" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specialized ideograph found within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a collection of characters primarily used for compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards like CNS 11643, rather than for general modern use. This specific character, often represented by a complex and uncommon glyph, does not correspond to a standard, frequently used Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character, but rather serves as a mapping for a rare or variant form that exists in those legacy standards. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that text encoded in these older systems can be correctly represented and converted without loss of information, even though the character itself has no widely recognized meaning or common usage in contemporary writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAA8
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	"直" U+76F4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	直
HTML Hex Encoding	直
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAA8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAA8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufaa8

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	"直" U+76F4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"直" U+76F4 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+76F4
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-5D91
kRSUnicode	109.3
kTotalStrokes	8