U+FAB8 "" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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U+FAB8 "" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a unique glyph included in the Unicode standard’s CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was created primarily to facilitate round-trip conversion with older East Asian character encoding standards (such as certain JIS or CNS sets) that existed before Unicode. This particular character does not have a distinct semantic meaning beyond its role as a compatibility mapping; it represents a graphic variant or a specific positional form of a Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) ideograph that was considered necessary to preserve during data migration to Unicode. As a compatibility ideograph, it is generally discouraged for new text composition in modern contexts, as its usage is superseded by semantically unified, standard CJK Unified Ideographs that cover the same meaning.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xAA 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFAB8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FAB8
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufab8

Unihan Properties

kCompatibilityVariant
U+8996
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-74D4
kRSUnicode
113.7
kTotalStrokes
11