U+FAC5 "鉶" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAC5 "鉶" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a collection of characters encoded primarily to preserve the identity of precomposed or variant forms found in earlier East Asian character set standards, such as those from Japan, China, or Korea. This specific ideograph represents a CJK unified ideograph that was given its own code point in the compatibility zone to maintain round-trip conversion with older encoding systems, though its meaning and pronunciation correspond to a standard CJK character already represented elsewhere in Unicode, typically identified as U+794A in the Unified CJK block. As a compatibility character, it is not generally recommended for use in modern text unless exact fidelity to a legacy legacy encoding is required.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAC5
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	"鉶" U+9276 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	鉶
HTML Hex Encoding	鉶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAB 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAC5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAC5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufac5

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	"鉶" U+9276 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"鉶" U+9276 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+9276
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-80CE
kRSUnicode	167.6
kTotalStrokes	16