U+FA49 "爫" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA49 "爫" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph originally encoded to match a specific character from a pre existing character set, such as a Japanese vendor standard, which differs in typographic design from its canonical CJK Unified Ideograph counterpart. It represents the same underlying Chinese character as the standard ideograph U+516C "公", meaning public, official, or male, but is preserved in Unicode for round trip compatibility with older text data. This character is retained in the compatibility block to ensure that documents created with legacy encoding systems can be accurately converted to Unicode without loss of information, though modern usage recommends the unified version instead.