U+FAAE "类" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAAE "类" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specific glyph found within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode primarily to preserve the roundtrip integrity of text converted from older East Asian character set standards like CNS 11643. This particular codepoint represents a variant form of a Chinese character, often mapped to a standard CJK Unified Ideograph such as U+5A4E ("婎"), though its exact usage and meaning are typically identical to its unified counterpart. The "compatibility" designation indicates that this character exists for historical encoding reasons rather than to add a new semantic value, and it is not recommended for general use in modern text where its standard unified equivalent should be employed instead.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAAE
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	"类" U+7C7B CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	类
HTML Hex Encoding	类
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAAE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAAE
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufaae

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	"类" U+7C7B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"类" U+7C7B 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+7C7B
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-659F
kRSUnicode	119.3
kTotalStrokes	10