U+F937 "路" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F937 "路" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that represents a variant form of the standard CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) character for "road" or "path," typically written as 路 (U+8DEF). It belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode to preserve the roundtrip conversion integrity with older character encoding standards like CNS 11643, Big Five, or other East Asian industry encodings, where this particular glyph shape was used for specific system or font compatibility. As a compatibility character, its use is generally not recommended for modern text, and it is distinct from the unified CJK ideograph 路, serving instead as a legacy mapping point for historical or specialized data interchange.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F937
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	"路" U+8DEF CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	路
HTML Hex Encoding	路
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA4 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF937
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F937
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf937

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	"路" U+8DEF CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"路" U+8DEF 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+8DEF
kDefinition	road, path, street; journey
kHangul	노:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-524A
kKorean	NO
kRSUnicode	157.6
kTotalStrokes	13