U+F927 "蠟" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F927 "蠟" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character included in the Unicode standard specifically within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was designed to ensure round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as those used in certain Japanese industrial standards (e.g., JIS X 0213). This particular character represents a graphic variation of a standard CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph, often mapping to the more common character U+881F (which means "candle" or "wax"), and it exists solely to preserve the original, distinct shape of that character as found in legacy encoded text. Its usage is typically avoided in modern text in favor of the unified CJK Unified Ideograph, as the compatibility versions are considered duplicate representations for encoding history rather than for active current writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+F927
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 "蠟" U+881F CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 蠟
HTML Hex Encoding 蠟
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA4 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF927
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F927
C/C++/Java Escape \uf927

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 "蠟" U+881F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "蠟" U+881F 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+881F
kDefinition wax; candle; waxy, glazed
kHangul 납:0
kIRG_KSource K0-5223
kKorean NAP
kRSUnicode 142.15
kTotalStrokes 21