U+FAB6 "襁" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAB6 "襁" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specialized glyph belonging to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode primarily to provide round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character set standards. This particular character represents a variant form of a traditional Chinese or Japanese character that has been unified with its standard counterpart in the main CJK Unified Ideographs block, but is encoded separately here to preserve the exact encoding used in legacy systems. Its use is generally discouraged in modern text, as it is considered a compatibility character rather than a standard writing element; most modern systems and fonts will instead treat it as a duplicate of a more commonly encoded ideograph.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAB6
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	"襁" U+8941 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	襁
HTML Hex Encoding	襁
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAB6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAB6
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufab6

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	"襁" U+8941 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"襁" U+8941 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+8941
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7451
kRSUnicode	145.11
kTotalStrokes	16