U+FAC9 "韛" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FAC9 "韛" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specific graphical character belonging to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was created to represent unique or variant forms of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters found in legacy character sets for compatibility with modern Unicode systems. This ideograph is labeled with a "#" in its name to indicate it is an unassigned or placeholder identifier within that subset, meaning it does not correspond to a standard, unified CJK character but rather preserves a distinct shape or usage from older encoding standards. As a compatibility ideograph, it exists solely to allow round-trip conversion between Unicode and earlier character sets, and it is not typically used in contemporary text or writing, serving instead as a historical artifact of digital typography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FAC9
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	"韛" U+97DB CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	韛
HTML Hex Encoding	韛
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAB 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFAC9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FAC9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufac9

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	"韛" U+97DB CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"韛" U+97DB 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+97DB
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-862D
kRSUnicode	178.11
kTotalStrokes	19