U+FAC2 "輸" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAC2 "輸" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specific glyph found within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a region of the Unicode standard designed to include characters from legacy East Asian character sets that are not part of the main CJK Unified Ideograph blocks. This particular code point represents a duplicate or variant form of a standard Chinese character, often used in older software or documents to preserve exact visual representation from earlier encoding systems. Its primary purpose is for round-trip conversion compatibility, ensuring that text from legacy systems can be mapped to and from Unicode without losing the original intended shape or meaning, though it is rarely used in modern writing due to the availability of the unified form.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAC2
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	"輸" U+8F38 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	輸
HTML Hex Encoding	輸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAB 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAC2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAC2
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufac2

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	"輸" U+8F38 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"輸" U+8F38 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+8F38
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7CAE
kRSUnicode	159.9
kTotalStrokes	16