U+F934 "老" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F934 "老" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically representing a variant or duplicate of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph for "old" or "aged," which is normally encoded at U+8001. This character was included in Unicode to preserve round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards like CNS 11643 or Big5, where it appeared as a separate code point due to slight graphical or structural differences. However, in modern usage, it is considered a duplicate and is typically discouraged for use in new text, as the unified version is preferred for representing the same meaning across all platforms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F934
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	"老" U+8001 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	老
HTML Hex Encoding	老
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA4 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF934
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F934
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf934

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	"老" U+8001 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"老" U+8001 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+8001
kDefinition	old, aged; experienced
kHangul	노:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5247
kKorean	NO
kRSUnicode	125.0
kTotalStrokes	6