U+F91C "卵" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F91C "卵" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a CJK Compatibility Ideograph that represents a variant or duplicate form of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+5375, which is the character for "egg." It is part of the Unicode block specifically designated for compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as those used in legacy systems or databases, ensuring that text conversion between different encoding formats preserves the intended character. This particular ideograph is considered a compatibility character because it maps to the same underlying Chinese character as its unified counterpart, but it is encoded separately to maintain round-trip fidelity when converting from older character sets.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F91C
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	"卵" U+5375 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	卵
HTML Hex Encoding	卵
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA4 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF91C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F91C
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf91c

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	"卵" U+5375 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"卵" U+5375 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+5375
kDefinition	egg; ovum; roe; spawn
kHangul	난:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-516B
kKorean	NAN
kRSUnicode	26.5
kTotalStrokes	7