U+FAAA "着" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAAA "着" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a rarely used symbol from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was primarily included in Unicode to ensure round trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards like CNS 11643 or IBM's extended character sets. This particular character does not represent a standard modern Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character but rather is a duplicate or variant of a more common ideograph, provided for legacy system support. As a compatibility ideograph, its usage in contemporary text is generally discouraged in favor of the canonical CJK Unified Ideograph, and it may not render correctly in all fonts or applications.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAAA
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	"着" U+7740 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	着
HTML Hex Encoding	着
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAAA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAAA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufaaa

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	"着" U+7740 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"着" U+7740 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+7740
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-5E08
kRSUnicode	109.7 123.5
kTotalStrokes	11