U+F928 "廊" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F928 "廊" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specialized encoding within the Unicode standard's CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, representing the Chinese character that corresponds to the modern simplified form of "lang" (meaning "hall" or "veranda"). It was included specifically to ensure round-trip compatibility with legacy East Asian character sets, such as those used in older Japanese and Korean encoding systems, where this particular variant shape existed. Unlike standard CJK Unified Ideographs, this character is intended for compatibility mapping rather than general modern text, and its usage is generally discouraged in favor of the unified character U+5ECA (廊), which conveys the same semantic meaning and is preferred for contemporary digital communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F928
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	"廊" U+5ECA CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	廊
HTML Hex Encoding	廊
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA4 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF928
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F928
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf928

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	"廊" U+5ECA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"廊" U+5ECA 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

kCantonese	long4
kCompatibilityVariant	U+5ECA
kCowles	2461
kDefinition	corridor, porch, veranda
kHangul	낭:0
kIRG_JSource	J3-742E
kIRG_KSource	K0-5227
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+5ECA
kJIS0213	1,84,14
kKorean	NANG
kNelson	1524
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+20303+53.3.10
kRSUnicode	53.9
kTang	lɑng
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	J