U+FAC0 "變" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAC0 "變" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specific character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was encoded primarily to preserve the identity of characters used in older or otherwise incompatible East Asian character encodings, allowing for round-trip conversion to and from those systems. This particular glyph does not have a distinct abstract meaning of its own but rather corresponds to a variant or simplified form of a more common Chinese character, and its "FAC0" code point indicates it is not intended for general modern text use but exists to maintain compatibility with legacy data.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAC0
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	"變" U+8B8A CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	變
HTML Hex Encoding	變
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAB 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAC0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAC0
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufac0

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	"變" U+8B8A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"變" U+8B8A 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+8B8A
kIRG_GSource	GCA-J0087
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-77CB
kRSUnicode	149.16
kTotalStrokes	22