U+F941 "論" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F941 "論" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included primarily to support roundtrip conversion with legacy character encoding standards, particularly those used in East Asian computing systems like the CNS 11643 and KPS 9566 standards. This specific glyph is a variant form of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+8AD6, which corresponds to the Chinese character "論" (meaning "discuss" or "theory") but with minor graphical differences, often related to stroke shape or simplification, that arise from historical or regional typographic practices. Unlike unified ideographs, compatibility characters like this one are not recommended for use in modern text because they duplicate the semantic meaning of their unified counterparts and can cause interoperability issues in data processing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F941
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	"論" U+8AD6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	論
HTML Hex Encoding	論
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF941
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F941
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf941

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	"論" U+8AD6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"論" U+8AD6 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+8AD6
kDefinition	debate; discuss; discourse
kHangul	논:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5255
kKorean	NON
kRSUnicode	149.8
kTotalStrokes	15