U+FA8F "摒" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA8F "摒" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a rare glyph belonging to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was designed to facilitate round trip conversion with legacy character sets like those used in earlier Japanese or Chinese computing systems rather than for modern standard writing. This specific ideograph, which appears as a stylized variant of a common CJK character, is considered a compatibility image rather than a unique conceptual entity, meaning its form and usage are tied to historical encoding needs rather than active linguistic application. As a result, it is seldom used in contemporary text and primarily serves archival or specialized technical purposes where exact mapping to older systems is required.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA8F
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	"摒" U+6452 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	摒
HTML Hex Encoding	摒
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA8F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA8F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa8f

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	"摒" U+6452 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"摒" U+6452 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+6452
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-46F9
kRSUnicode	64.9
kTotalStrokes	12