U+FABA "諸" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FABA "諸" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a rarely used character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode primarily to support round trip conversion with older East Asian character encoding standards. This specific character is a compatibility variant of a regular CJK unified ideograph, meaning it represents the same written Chinese, Japanese, or Korean logograph as its unified counterpart but with a slightly different visual shape or encoding history. The "#" in its name indicates that this ideograph does not have a standard CJK Unified Ideographs mapping and is treated as a compatibility character, often used only in legacy text or specialized contexts where preserving the exact original glyph is necessary.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FABA
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	"諸" U+8AF8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	諸
HTML Hex Encoding	諸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFABA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FABA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufaba

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	"諸" U+8AF8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"諸" U+8AF8 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+8AF8
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-769E
kRSUnicode	149.9
kTotalStrokes	15