U+FACD "鬒" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FACD "鬒" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character found in the Compatibility Ideographs block of the Unicode standard, specifically originating from the CJK compatibility zone designed to encode glyphs that correspond to CJK unified ideographs used in legacy character sets and standards. This particular character represents a variant or duplicate form of a Chinese ideograph, typically included for compatibility with older systems or databases that required distinct encoding for the same root character across different East Asian text processing environments. Its usage is primarily for roundtrip conversion and data interchange with legacy systems, and it is not intended for modern text composition in general Japanese, Chinese, or Korean writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FACD
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	"鬒" U+9B12 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	鬒
HTML Hex Encoding	鬒
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAB 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFACD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FACD
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufacd

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	"鬒" U+9B12 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"鬒" U+9B12 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+9B12
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8BAB
kRSUnicode	190.10
kTotalStrokes	20