U+FAAD "節" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAAD "節" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a seldom used ideograph classified under the "CJK Compatibility Ideographs" block, which exists to encode characters that were originally part of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean (CJK) standards for compatibility with pre-existing character sets, rather than for general modern writing. This specific character is a compatibility variant, meaning it represents a form or character that was included to ensure round-trip conversion from older encoding systems, but it is typically not intended for normal text use where standard CJK Unified Ideographs are preferred. Its presence in the standard reflects historical encoding practices, and in most practical contexts, it would be mapped to a more conventional Unicode character.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAAD
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	"節" U+7BC0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	節
HTML Hex Encoding	節
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAAD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAAD
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufaad

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	"節" U+7BC0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"節" U+7BC0 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+7BC0
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6435
kRSUnicode	118.7
kTotalStrokes	13