U+FAC7 "難" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FAC7 "難" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a rarely used glyph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was originally encoded to maintain round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character sets and legacy standards like CNS 11643 and JIS X 0213. Its primary function is not to represent a common Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character in modern text, but rather to map a specific, often obscure or variant ideograph from those legacy systems into the Unicode standard, ensuring that documents encoded in those older formats can be accurately converted without loss of information. As a compatibility character, it is not typically used in contemporary writing and may not be displayed correctly without a font that includes specific support for that region of the Unicode Private Use Area, where it was placed during early encoding efforts before later reassignment to the Compatibility block.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
難 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
難 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xAB 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFAC7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FAC7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ufac7 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCompatibilityVariant |
U+96E3 |
| kIRG_KPSource |
KP1-8404 |
| kRSUnicode |
172.11 |
| kTotalStrokes |
18 |