U+FAD2 "㮝" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAD2 "㮝" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a rarely used ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was encoded specifically to maintain round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character set standards, such as those used in legacy Japanese or Chinese computing systems. Unlike standard CJK Unified Ideographs, this character does not represent a meaningful current usage in modern text and is typically a duplicate or variant form of another ideograph included elsewhere in Unicode for compatibility purposes. Its inclusion allows documents created in these older encodings to be accurately converted to Unicode without losing information, even though the character itself holds no distinct semantic or phonetic value in contemporary writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAD2
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	"㮝" U+3B9D CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㮝
HTML Hex Encoding	㮝
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAB 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAD2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAD2
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufad2

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	"㮝" U+3B9D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"㮝" U+3B9D 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+3B9D
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4CE2
kRSUnicode	75.9
kTotalStrokes	14