U+F942 "壟" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F942 "壟" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph included in the Unicode standard to support the mapping of character forms found in older East Asian character encoding standards, specifically from the Japanese industry standard JIS X 0208. It represents a variant glyph of a common Chinese/Japanese character, typically used in contexts like personal names or historical documents where a specific printed form is required. This character is not intended for general modern text but exists to ensure round-trip conversion fidelity between Unicode and legacy encoding systems, and its use in contemporary writing is discouraged in favor of its unified CJK representation, U+7F8E "美" meaning beauty.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F942
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	"壟" U+58DF CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	壟
HTML Hex Encoding	壟
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF942
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F942
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf942

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	"壟" U+58DF CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"壟" U+58DF 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+58DF
kDefinition	grave, mound; ridge in field
kHangul	농:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5256
kKorean	NONG
kRSUnicode	32.16
kTotalStrokes	19