U+FABB "請" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FABB "請" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a rarely used symbol found in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a collection of characters encoded specifically to preserve roundtrip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards. This particular ideograph does not have a defined meaning or standard usage in modern Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text, as its purpose is purely technical: to represent a character from a legacy encoding that was distinct from a unified CJK character. In practice, it is seldom encountered in contemporary digital communication and primarily serves to ensure that documents converted from older systems remain uncorrupted, without conveying any semantic content or linguistic function.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FABB
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	"請" U+8ACB CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	請
HTML Hex Encoding	請
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFABB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FABB
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufabb

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	"請" U+8ACB CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"請" U+8ACB 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+8ACB
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-76A4
kRSUnicode	149.8
kTotalStrokes	15