U+F92A "浪" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F92A "浪" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specialized ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, representing a variant or alternative glyph form of the common Chinese character for "wave" or "ripple" (浪). This character was originally encoded for compatibility with pre-existing East Asian character set standards, such as those from Japan or Korea, where it appears as a distinct typographic variant. It is not typically used in modern standard Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text, as its function has largely been subsumed by the unified CJK Unified Ideograph U+6D6A. Instead, it serves as a historical reference or for preserving the exact glyph shapes required in legacy documents and systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F92A
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	"浪" U+6D6A CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	浪
HTML Hex Encoding	浪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA4 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF92A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F92A
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf92a

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	"浪" U+6D6A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"浪" U+6D6A 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+6D6A
kDefinition	wave; wasteful, reckless
kHangul	낭:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5229
kKorean	NANG
kRSUnicode	85.7
kTotalStrokes	10