U+FAD5 "𥉉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAD5 "𥉉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a rarely encountered glyph classified within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in the Unicode standard primarily to preserve the round-trip conversion integrity of text from older East Asian character encodings like CNS 11643 or CCCII. It does not represent a unique, stand-alone Chinese character used in modern or classical texts; rather, it is a compatibility variant that maps to or duplicates the meaning of an existing CJK unified ideograph, often indicated by a number such as 2 (or another numeral) to differentiate it from its unified counterpart. This character exists mainly for historical data interchange purposes and is not intended for general writing, meaning that in practice it should be converted to its standard unified form for proper use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAD5
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	"𥉉" U+25249 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𥉉
HTML Hex Encoding	𥉉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAB 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAD5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAD5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufad5

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	"𥉉" U+25249 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𥉉" U+25249 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+25249
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-5EBB
kRSUnicode	109.10
kTotalStrokes	15