U+F935 "蘆" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F935 "蘆" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically representing a variant glyph of the standard CJK unified ideograph U+82F8, which corresponds to the Chinese character for "lu" (芦 or 蘆), meaning "reed" or "rush." This character was encoded in Unicode primarily for roundtrip conversion compatibility with older East Asian character set standards, such as Korean KS C 5601 or Japanese JIS X 0208, where a distinct code point was assigned to this particular shape. It does not have an independent semantic meaning beyond that of its unified counterpart, and its use is generally discouraged in favor of the standard ideograph to ensure modern text interchange efficiency.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F935
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	"蘆" U+8606 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	蘆
HTML Hex Encoding	蘆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA4 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF935
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F935
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf935

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	"蘆" U+8606 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"蘆" U+8606 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+8606
kDefinition	rushes, reeds
kHangul	노:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5248
kKorean	NO
kRSUnicode	140.16
kTotalStrokes	19