U+FAAE "" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Browser Default

U+FAAE "" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specific glyph found within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode primarily to preserve the roundtrip integrity of text converted from older East Asian character set standards like CNS 11643. This particular codepoint represents a variant form of a Chinese character, often mapped to a standard CJK Unified Ideograph such as U+5A4E ("婎"), though its exact usage and meaning are typically identical to its unified counterpart. The "compatibility" designation indicates that this character exists for historical encoding reasons rather than to add a new semantic value, and it is not recommended for general use in modern text where its standard unified equivalent should be employed instead.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
类
HTML Hex Encoding
类
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xAA 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFAAE
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FAAE
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufaae

Unihan Properties

kCompatibilityVariant
U+7C7B
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-659F
kRSUnicode
119.3
kTotalStrokes
10