U+FAC3 "遲" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAC3 "遲" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph in the Unicode standard, specifically part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block designed to encode Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters that were unified with standard CJK Unified Ideographs but preserved in a separate block to maintain round-trip compatibility with legacy character sets. This particular character represents a variant or duplicate of a standard CJK ideograph, often used in historical or specialized text contexts such as names or documents from older encoding systems. Its inclusion allows for faithful conversion of text from older formats like CNS 11643 or other national standards without losing original glyph distinctions, even though its primary usage in modern contexts is largely obsolete.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAC3
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	"遲" U+9072 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	遲
HTML Hex Encoding	遲
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAB 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAC3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAC3
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufac3

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	"遲" U+9072 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"遲" U+9072 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+9072
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7DF1
kRSUnicode	162.12
kTotalStrokes	14