U+FAAF "絛" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAAF "絛" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specialized glyph within the Unicode standard's CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically included to preserve the shape and identity of a Chinese character variant used in legacy or older character encoding standards for compatibility purposes. This particular code point does not represent a common modern character but rather a compatibility variant, often assigned the placeholder label "CJK Compatibility Ideograph-#" when its exact semantic identity is not explicitly documented. Its primary function is to ensure that text encoded in older systems can be round-tripped or converted to Unicode without loss of information, thereby maintaining fidelity to historical document formats or specific fonts that used this unique form.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAAF
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	"絛" U+7D5B CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	絛
HTML Hex Encoding	絛
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAAF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAAF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufaaf

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	"絛" U+7D5B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"絛" U+7D5B 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+7D5B
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-66BA
kRSUnicode	120.7
kTotalStrokes	12