CJK Compatibility Ideographs
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The CJK Compatibility Ideographs Unicode block provides Han character variants that are necessary for mapping between Unicode and non-Unicode East Asian encodings. Including these characters allows for the faithful migration and preservation of historical texts and digital archives from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean sources.
CJK Compatibility Ideographs is a Unicode block created to contain mostly Han characters that were encoded in multiple locations in other established character encodings, in addition to their CJK Unified Ideographs assignments, in order to retain round-trip compatibility between Unicode and those encodings. However, it also contains 12 unified ideographs sourced from Japanese character sets from IBM. The block has dozens of ideographic variation sequences registered in the Unicode Ideographic Variation Database (IVD). These sequences specify the desired glyph variant for a given Unicode character.