U+FAD7 "𧻓" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FAD7 "𧻓" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically included to maintain round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as certain vendor-specific or national standards, where this glyph represented a variant or duplicate of a standard CJK unified ideograph. Its visual form corresponds to a specific Chinese character, but its primary purpose is not for general writing; instead, it serves as a legacy mapping to ensure that text encoded in older systems can be converted to Unicode without loss of information. As a compatibility character, U+FAD7 is generally not recommended for use in modern text, with standard CJK unified ideographs preferred for representing the underlying character, though it may appear in archival or specialized contexts where exact historical representation is required.

General Properties

Code Point U+FAD7
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 "𧻓" U+27ED3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𧻓
HTML Hex Encoding 𧻓
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAB 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFAD7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FAD7
C/C++/Java Escape \ufad7

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 "𧻓" U+27ED3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "𧻓" U+27ED3 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+27ED3
kIRG_KPSource KP1-7A0A
kRSUnicode 156.6
kTotalStrokes 15