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

Unicode Version 18.0

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U+FACA "" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a rarely used symbol that belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was created to support roundtrip conversion between older East Asian character encoding standards and Unicode. This specific ideograph is a compatibility form, meaning it corresponds to a character in another standard (like a Japanese or Chinese legacy encoding) that has a distinct shape or use but is not a unique unified CJK character. It does not have a clearly defined semantic meaning on its own, as its primary purpose is to preserve the textual identity of a source encoding rather than to function as an independent word or logograph. In modern digital text, such compatibility ideographs are often avoided in favor of their unified equivalents, making U+FACA a historical or technical artifact rather than a practical character for everyday writing.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
響
HTML Hex Encoding
響
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xAB 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFACA
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FACA
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufaca

Unihan Properties

kCompatibilityVariant
U+97FF
kIRG_GSource
GCA-F0052
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-866A
kRSUnicode
180.11
kTotalStrokes
20