U+F90E "癩" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F90E "癩" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specialized code point from the Unicode standard's CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was designed to preserve the exact character shapes from older East Asian character encoding standards, such as Korean KPS 9566 and other legacy systems, for round-trip compatibility during text conversion. This particular ideograph represents a variant or duplicate of a standard CJK unified ideograph used in the Korean writing system, often corresponding to the character for "ra" or a similar phonetic or semantic element in the Hanja set. Its inclusion in the compatibility block means it is not intended for general new text creation but rather exists to ensure that documents originally encoded in older formats can be accurately displayed and exchanged without losing their original typographic identity.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F90E
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	"癩" U+7669 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	癩
HTML Hex Encoding	癩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA4 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF90E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F90E
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf90e

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	"癩" U+7669 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"癩" U+7669 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+7669
kDefinition	leprosy, scabies, mange; shoddy
kHangul	나:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-515B
kKorean	NA
kRSUnicode	104.16
kTotalStrokes	21