U+FAC4 "醙" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAC4 "醙" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically designated as a variant of a standard CJK Unified Ideograph for roundtrip mapping with older East Asian character encoding standards. It represents a Chinese character used in historical or specialized text contexts, often as a duplication or simplification of a more common ideograph, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures faithful conversion from legacy systems without altering the original glyph design. However, in modern digital usage, this character is largely considered a duplicate of the standard unified CJK character, and its use is generally discouraged in favor of the proper unified form to maintain consistency and avoid encoding complexity.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAC4
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	"醙" U+9199 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	醙
HTML Hex Encoding	醙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAB 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAC4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAC4
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufac4

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	"醙" U+9199 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"醙" U+9199 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+9199
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7F3E
kRSUnicode	164.10
kTotalStrokes	16