U+FAAB "磌" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAAB "磌" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character included in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was created specifically to facilitate round-trip conversion with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as certain versions of the JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard). This particular character, like others in its range, is a duplicate or variant form of a standard CJK Unified Ideograph, meaning it encodes the same semantic content but with a different or simplified glyph shape intended for compatibility purposes. Its usage is generally discouraged in favor of the unified, non-compatibility counterpart, as it can cause inconsistency in text processing and data interchange, and it is primarily maintained in Unicode to preserve the integrity of legacy digital documents.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAAB
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	"磌" U+78CC CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	磌
HTML Hex Encoding	磌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAAB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAAB
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufaab

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	"磌" U+78CC CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"磌" U+78CC 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+78CC
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6083
kRSUnicode	112.10
kTotalStrokes	15