U+FAC1 "贈" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAC1 "贈" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a rare and specialized symbol belonging to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was specifically designed to represent a character from historical or legacy East Asian character sets, such as those used in early Japanese or Korean computer systems. This particular ideograph does not correspond to a commonly used modern Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character but instead serves as a means of encoding a form that existed in older standards to ensure interoperability during the transition to Unicode. Its inclusion highlights the effort to preserve digital heritage while clarifying that such compatibility characters should not be used in contemporary writing, as they are considered duplicates of standard CJK Unified Ideographs with no distinct modern semantic value.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAC1
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	"贈" U+8D08 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	贈
HTML Hex Encoding	贈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAB 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAC1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAC1
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufac1

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	"贈" U+8D08 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"贈" U+8D08 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+8D08
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7976
kRSUnicode	154.12
kTotalStrokes	18