U+F90C "奈" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F90C "奈" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a legacy area of Unicode designed to encode characters that have distinct shapes in older East Asian character sets, primarily to preserve round-trip conversion compatibility with older standards like JIS X 0208 and other vendor-specific encodings. It visually represents a variant form of the CJK Unified Ideograph U+2F8A1 "奈", which generally means "what" or is used phonetically in Japanese names and compounds. This character is classified as a compatibility ideograph rather than a unified one because its glyph shape or mapping originated from a specific source standard, such as IBM or Adobe, ensuring that documents encoded in those older systems do not lose their intended appearance when converted to Unicode.

General Properties

Code Point U+F90C
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 "奈" U+5948 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 奈
HTML Hex Encoding 奈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA4 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF90C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F90C
C/C++/Java Escape \uf90c

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 "奈" U+5948 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "奈" U+5948 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+5948
kDefinition but, how; bear, stand, endure
kHangul 나:0
kIRG_KSource K0-5155
kKorean NA
kRSUnicode 37.5
kTotalStrokes 8