U+F93D "綠" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F93D "綠" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was created to encode duplicate or variant Chinese characters that were already present in other standards for round-trip compatibility with older character sets. This specific ideograph represents a variant form of a common CJK character, typically associated with the meaning of "green" or "blue-green" as seen in the standard character 綠 (lǜ), but it is considered a compatibility ideograph rather than a unified character. It serves as a historical or legacy representation, ensuring that text converted from older East Asian encoding systems retains its intended appearance, though modern usage generally prefers its unified counterpart in the CJK Unified Ideographs block.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F93D
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	"綠" U+7DA0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	綠
HTML Hex Encoding	綠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA4 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF93D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F93D
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf93d

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	"綠" U+7DA0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"綠" U+7DA0 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+7DA0
kDefinition	green; chlorine
kHangul	녹:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5251
kKorean	NOK
kRSUnicode	120.8
kTotalStrokes	14