U+FAC6 "陼" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAC6 "陼" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph included in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically designated as a variant form of the CJK Unified Ideograph U+9078 meaning "elect, select, choose" or related concepts. This character, while visually similar or identical to its unified counterpart, was encoded separately to preserve compatibility with legacy East Asian character sets and encoding standards, ensuring that text from older systems could be converted to Unicode without loss of information. Its primary use is in historical or specialized digital contexts where maintaining exact character identity from legacy sources, such as certain Japanese or Chinese character databases, is necessary, though it is not typically recommended for new text creation in favor of the standard unified ideograph.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAC6
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	"陼" U+967C CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	陼
HTML Hex Encoding	陼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAB 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAC6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAC6
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufac6

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	"陼" U+967C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"陼" U+967C 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+967C
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8340
kRSUnicode	170.9
kTotalStrokes	11