U+FAB4 "華" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAB4 "華" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a complex and historically specific character, designated as a CJK Compatibility Ideograph found in the Unicode Standard's compatibility block. It represents a variant, often simplified or non-standard, form of a Chinese character (likely a component of the traditional character "類" or a similar ideograph) and was encoded primarily to preserve the exact glyph appearance used in older industry standards like the CNS 11643 and Big5 character sets. This character is not intended for general modern text and is typically used only when a document must precisely reproduce the original, often legacy, typographic form without converting it to a modern standard character, helping to ensure compatibility with historical databases and documents.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAB4
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	"華" U+83EF CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	華
HTML Hex Encoding	華
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAB4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAB4
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufab4

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	"華" U+83EF CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"華" U+83EF 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+83EF
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6E6C
kRSUnicode	140.8
kTotalStrokes	9