U+F92B "狼" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F92B "狼" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that represents the same Chinese character as the standard U+72FC "狼" meaning wolf, but it originates from a separate, older encoding standard where it was included for round trip compatibility with legacy character sets. This character falls within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was created to preserve the exact glyph shapes from earlier systems like JIS X 0208 or other East Asian standards, ensuring that documents converted from those encodings could retain their original appearance without loss of information. As a compatibility character, U+F92B is visually identical or nearly identical to its standard counterpart, but its use is generally discouraged in favor of the unified CJK Unified Ideograph U+72FC, except when preserving original legacy formatting is essential.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F92B
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	"狼" U+72FC CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	狼
HTML Hex Encoding	狼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA4 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF92B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F92B
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf92b

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	"狼" U+72FC CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"狼" U+72FC 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+72FC
kDefinition	wolf
kHangul	낭:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-522A
kKorean	NANG
kRSUnicode	94.7
kTotalStrokes	10