U+FAD9 "龎" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAD9 "龎" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a rare and specialized glyph assigned to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a region of Unicode primarily designed to encode precomposed or variant Chinese characters that were used for compatibility with older East Asian character sets and standards, such as those found in legacy software or hardware systems. This particular ideograph does not represent a standard, common word in modern Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, but rather serves as a compatibility mapping for a specific historic or alternate form of a character, often with no widely recognized modern usage. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the accurate, lossless interchange of text from legacy documents while preserving the exact visual shape, even though it may not be supported by most fonts or input methods today.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAD9
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	"龎" U+9F8E CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	龎
HTML Hex Encoding	龎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAB 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAD9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAD9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufad9

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	"龎" U+9F8E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"龎" U+9F8E 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+9F8E
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-9273
kRSUnicode	212.2
kTotalStrokes	18