U+FABF "謹" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FABF "謹" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode primarily to support round-trip conversion between legacy East Asian character sets, such as CNS 11643 or other pre-Unicode standards, and modern text encoding systems. This specific ideograph represents a variant or compatibility form of a Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) character that has been unified with a regular CJK Unified Ideograph in the standard encoding, meaning it should generally be avoided in favor of its unified counterpart. Its presence ensures that older text using a proprietary or national standard can be accurately mapped to Unicode without loss of information, though modern usage is discouraged outside of preservation or conversion contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FABF
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	"謹" U+8B39 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	謹
HTML Hex Encoding	謹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFABF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FABF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufabf

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	"謹" U+8B39 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"謹" U+8B39 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+8B39
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-76FD
kRSUnicode	149.11
kTotalStrokes	16