U+FA8B "懲" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FA8B "懲" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a glyph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was originally included in Unicode to support round trip conversion with legacy East Asian character encoding standards such as CNS 11643, where it corresponds to a specific rare or variant Chinese character. This character represents a specialized form of the ideograph for "open" or "start" (often related to the character 開 or 闓), but it is classified as a compatibility ideograph because its code point was unified with a standard CJK Unified Ideograph in later versions of Unicode, meaning its use is primarily for preserving original encoding mappings rather than for new text. As a result, modern systems typically prefer the unified, canonical character, and U+FA8B is considered a duplicate or compatibility variant that may not display correctly on all platforms.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
懲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
懲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xAA 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFA8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FA8B |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ufa8b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCompatibilityVariant |
U+61F2 |
| kIRG_KPSource |
KP1-4486 |
| kRSUnicode |
61.15 |
| kTotalStrokes |
18 |