U+FAB0 "練" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAB0 "練" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which is a special section of Unicode designed to preserve the encoding of characters found in earlier East Asian character set standards, such as CNS 11643, for round-trip conversion with older systems. This specific character, number 38 in the block, is a duplicate or variant of a standard CJK Unified Ideograph, and it visually represents a Chinese character used in traditional or historical contexts, often corresponding to a specific glyph shape or encoding that differs from the unified version. Its inclusion ensures that legacy text and databases can be accurately represented without data loss, though modern usage typically prefers the unified ideograph instead.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAB0
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	"練" U+7DF4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	練
HTML Hex Encoding	練
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAB0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAB0
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufab0

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	"練" U+7DF4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"練" U+7DF4 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+7DF4
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-671B
kRSUnicode	120.9
kTotalStrokes	14