U+FAB9 "調" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAB9 "調" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a rarely used character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, primarily included for roundtrip compatibility with legacy East Asian character encodings and standards, rather than for modern everyday use. Its specific meaning corresponds to a variant of a standard CJK ideograph, with the "#" placeholder indicating that its assigned glyph or mapping may vary depending on the source standard or historical encoding context. This character exists to ensure that text encoded in older systems can be accurately represented in Unicode without loss of information, even though it may not be actively used in contemporary writing or digital communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAB9
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	"調" U+8ABF CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	調
HTML Hex Encoding	調
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAB9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAB9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufab9

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	"調" U+8ABF CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"調" U+8ABF 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+8ABF
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-769A
kRSUnicode	149.8
kTotalStrokes	15