U+FAB7 "覆" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAB7 "覆" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a rarely used symbol found within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a special section of Unicode designed primarily for roundtrip conversion compatibility with older East Asian character set standards, such as those from Japan, China, or Korea. This particular character represents a variant or duplicate form of a standard CJK ideograph, often corresponding to a version that includes a simplified or slightly altered component, but without a direct equivalent in modern, unified Unicode. Its specific meaning and usage are not commonly defined in modern contexts, and it serves mainly as a historical or technical placeholder to preserve the original glyph from legacy encoding systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAB7
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	"覆" U+8986 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	覆
HTML Hex Encoding	覆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAB7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAB7
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufab7

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	"覆" U+8986 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"覆" U+8986 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+8986
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-74C8
kRSUnicode	146.12
kTotalStrokes	18