U+F926 "臘" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F926 "臘" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a zone in Unicode designed to encode variant or legacy forms of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters that were used in older character sets or standards for compatibility purposes. This specific ideograph is a compatibility variant of a common CJK character, typically representing the same meaning and pronunciation as its standard counterpart, such as the character for “year” (腊 or 臘) in some contexts, but it exists in Unicode primarily to preserve round-trip conversion with earlier encoding systems like the Chinese GB 12345 standard. It appears in the Supplementary Private Use Area A plane and is rarely used in modern text, as most systems prefer the standard unified CJK character instead.

General Properties

Code Point U+F926
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 "臘" U+81D8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 臘
HTML Hex Encoding 臘
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA4 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF926
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F926
C/C++/Java Escape \uf926

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 "臘" U+81D8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "臘" U+81D8 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+81D8
kDefinition year end sacrifice; dried meat
kHangul 납:0
kIRG_KSource K0-5222
kKorean NAP
kRSUnicode 130.15
kTotalStrokes 19