U+F918 "落" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F918 "落" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the CJK Compatibility block, which was encoded primarily to preserve roundtrip compatibility with older East Asian character set standards. This specific character is a duplicate of the CJK Unified Ideograph U+843D "落" which means "to fall" or "to drop" in Chinese and Japanese contexts but appears in the compatibility block to represent a variant glyph or a specific usage from legacy encoding systems. Unlike standard unified ideographs, compatibility ideographs like U+F918 are not intended for general use in modern text and are included mainly for informational or historical purposes, ensuring that documents converted from earlier encoding formats retain their original visual representation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F918
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	"落" U+843D CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	落
HTML Hex Encoding	落
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA4 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF918
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F918
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf918

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	"落" U+843D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"落" U+843D 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+843D
kDefinition	fall, drop; net income, surplus
kHangul	낙:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5166
kKorean	NAK
kRSUnicode	140.9
kTotalStrokes	12