U+FAB2 "者" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAB2 "者" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a glyph that originates from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a collection of characters encoded primarily for round-trip compatibility with older East Asian text encoding standards, such as those used in Japan, China, or Korea. This specific character, whose appearance may vary depending on the font, does not have a standard, independent meaning in modern Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text; instead, it represents a variant or a particular printer's form of a more standard CJK ideograph, often found in historical documents or specialized character sets. Its inclusion in Unicode serves to preserve the exact visual representation of these source texts without altering their intended character, though it is largely redundant with other, more common CJK unified ideographs.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAB2
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	"者" U+8005 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	者
HTML Hex Encoding	者
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAB2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAB2
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufab2

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	"者" U+8005 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"者" U+8005 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+8005
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-69B1
kRSUnicode	125.4
kTotalStrokes	8