U+FAB3 "荒" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAB3 "荒" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which contains characters used for compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as those found in legacy Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) systems. This specific glyph is designated as a compatibility ideograph with the suffix "#", indicating it is a duplicate or variant form of a standard CJK Unified Ideograph, included solely to preserve round-trip conversion fidelity with older character sets. It does not represent a distinct semantic meaning or a new character in modern usage, but rather serves as a historical mapping artifact for text processing systems dealing with pre-Unicode encodings.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAB3
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	"荒" U+8352 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	荒
HTML Hex Encoding	荒
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAB3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAB3
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufab3

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	"荒" U+8352 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"荒" U+8352 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+8352
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6DBB
kRSUnicode	140.6
kTotalStrokes	9