U+FAD8 "齃" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FAD8 "齃" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specific code point within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, intended to represent a Chinese character (hanzi) that has been unified or mapped from a legacy character encoding standard, such as a vendor-specific or regional encoding, for compatibility purposes rather than for general modern use. Its glyph typically resembles a traditional or variant form of a CJK ideograph, and it is classified as a compatibility ideograph, meaning it was included in Unicode primarily to preserve round-trip conversion fidelity with older character sets (like CNS 11643 or certain Japanese and Korean standards) rather than to represent a distinct, actively used semantic character. Being uncommonly used in contemporary text, this character primarily functions as a historical or technical artifact within the Unicode standard, serving to ensure that documents encoded in older systems can be accurately transformed without data loss.

General Properties

Code Point U+FAD8
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 "齃" U+9F43 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 齃
HTML Hex Encoding 齃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAB 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFAD8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FAD8
C/C++/Java Escape \ufad8

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 "齃" U+9F43 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "齃" U+9F43 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+9F43
kIRG_KPSource KP1-91E5
kRSUnicode 209.9
kTotalStrokes 22