U+FAB5 "蝹" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAB5 "蝹" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a glyph that represents a variant form of a Chinese character, included in the Unicode standard’s CJK Compatibility Ideographs block to preserve the exact shape used in older or specialized character sets, such as those from Japanese or Korean industrial standards, rather than introducing a new semantic meaning. This specific ideograph is classified as a compatibility character, meaning it exists primarily for round-trip conversion with legacy encoding systems, and its use is discouraged in favor of its standard CJK Unified Ideograph counterpart where possible.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAB5
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	"蝹" U+8779 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	蝹
HTML Hex Encoding	蝹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAB5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAB5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufab5

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	"蝹" U+8779 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"蝹" U+8779 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+8779
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7250
kRSUnicode	142.10
kTotalStrokes	16