U+F93A "鷺" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F93A "鷺" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a Han character that appears in the Unicode standard as part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was created to unify characters with identical meanings and shapes that had been encoded separately in earlier East Asian character encoding standards, such as those for Japanese (JIS X 0208), Chinese (GB 2312), and Korean (KS C 5601). This specific character represents the Chinese character for "egret" or "heron" (generally pronounced "lù" in Mandarin) and corresponds to the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+9E6C. Its presence in the Compatibility Ideographs block indicates it is a duplicate of the unified version, retained solely for backward compatibility with legacy systems, and users are strongly discouraged from using it in modern text in favor of the unified character to support proper text processing and interchange.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F93A
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	"鷺" U+9DFA CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	鷺
HTML Hex Encoding	鷺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA4 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF93A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F93A
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf93a

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	"鷺" U+9DFA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"鷺" U+9DFA 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+9DFA
kDefinition	heron, egret
kHangul	노:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-524E
kKorean	NO
kRSUnicode	196.12
kTotalStrokes	24