U+F916 "烙" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F916 "烙" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph defined in the Unicode standard's CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included primarily to facilitate round trip conversion with older East Asian character encoding standards such as Shift JIS or CNS 11643. This particular character represents a variant or duplicate mapping of a CJK unified ideograph, often corresponding to the character for "brand" or "iron" (U+7149, 烙), but it is rendered with a different glyph shape in certain legacy fonts. Its primary function is to preserve the original visual form from those older standards, meaning it may appear identical to its unified counterpart in modern text but is treated as a separate code point for compatibility purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F916
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	"烙" U+70D9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	烙
HTML Hex Encoding	烙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA4 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF916
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F916
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf916

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	"烙" U+70D9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"烙" U+70D9 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+70D9
kDefinition	brand, burn; branding iron
kHangul	낙:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5164
kKorean	NAK
kRSUnicode	86.6
kTotalStrokes	10