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

Code Point U+FA8B
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 "懲" U+61F2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

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

Full Composition Exclusion Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "懲" U+61F2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "懲" U+61F2 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+61F2
kIRG_KPSource KP1-4486
kRSUnicode 61.15
kTotalStrokes 18