U+F90A "金" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F90A "金" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the Chinese character for "gold" or "metal", typically corresponding to the standard character 金. It is part of a block of compatibility ideographs in Unicode that were included for round-trip conversion compatibility with older East Asian character sets and standards, rather than for new text encoding. Its primary purpose is to support legacy encodings and ensure that text from older systems displays correctly, but it is generally recommended to use the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+91D1 金 instead of this compatibility variant in modern applications.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F90A
Version Added	1.1
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	"金" U+91D1 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	金
HTML Hex Encoding	金
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA4 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF90A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F90A
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf90a

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	"金" U+91D1 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"金" U+91D1 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+91D1
kDefinition	gold; metals in general; money
kHangul	금:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-505D
kKorean	KUM
kRSUnicode	167.0
kTotalStrokes	8