U+F90F "羅" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F90F "羅" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically representing a variant of the standard CJK character for the Chinese character "罗" (luó), which can mean a net, a gauze, or to collect. This character is categorized as a compatibility ideograph because it was encoded to preserve the distinct form used in older character set standards, such as those from Japan or Korea, rather than being a unified character in the main CJK Unified Ideographs block. Its inclusion ensures that text from legacy systems can be faithfully represented without loss of information, though in modern usage it is often equivalent to its unified counterpart.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F90F
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	"羅" U+7F85 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	羅
HTML Hex Encoding	羅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA4 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF90F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F90F
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf90f

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	"羅" U+7F85 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"羅" U+7F85 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+7F85
kDefinition	net for catching birds; gauze
kHangul	나:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-515C
kKorean	NA
kRSUnicode	122.14
kTotalStrokes	19