U+FAB8 "視" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAB8 "視" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a unique glyph included in the Unicode standard’s CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was created primarily to facilitate round-trip conversion with older East Asian character encoding standards (such as certain JIS or CNS sets) that existed before Unicode. This particular character does not have a distinct semantic meaning beyond its role as a compatibility mapping; it represents a graphic variant or a specific positional form of a Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) ideograph that was considered necessary to preserve during data migration to Unicode. As a compatibility ideograph, it is generally discouraged for new text composition in modern contexts, as its usage is superseded by semantically unified, standard CJK Unified Ideographs that cover the same meaning.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAB8
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	"視" U+8996 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	視
HTML Hex Encoding	視
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAB8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAB8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufab8

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	"視" U+8996 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"視" U+8996 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+8996
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-74D4
kRSUnicode	113.7
kTotalStrokes	11