U+F943 "弄" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F943 "弄" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specialized glyph used in East Asian typography, specifically part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block in the Unicode standard. This character was encoded for compatibility with legacy character sets, such as those found in older Japanese, Chinese, or Korean computing systems, where it represents a variant form of a common ideograph. Its primary purpose is to ensure that text from these older systems can be rendered correctly in modern environments without losing the intended visual appearance, though it is generally not needed for normal communication due to the availability of unified CJK Unified Ideographs.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F943
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	"弄" U+5F04 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	弄
HTML Hex Encoding	弄
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF943
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F943
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf943

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	"弄" U+5F04 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"弄" U+5F04 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+5F04
kDefinition	do, play or fiddle with; alley
kHangul	농:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5257
kKorean	NONG
kRSUnicode	55.4
kTotalStrokes	7