U+F944 "籠" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F944 "籠" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically encoded for round-trip conversion with older Japanese industrial standard character sets, such as JIS X 0208 and Shift JIS. This character represents a variant form of the CJK unified ideograph for "cage" or "basket" (most commonly associated with the standard character U+7C3C 籠), but its usage in modern text is extremely rare as it is reserved for legacy compliance rather than contemporary writing. Unicode strongly discourages the use of compatibility ideographs like U+F944 in new content, recommending the adoption of the standard unified CJK character instead to maintain consistency and avoid encoding confusion.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F944
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	"籠" U+7C60 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	籠
HTML Hex Encoding	籠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF944
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F944
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf944

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	"籠" U+7C60 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"籠" U+7C60 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+7C60
kDefinition	cage; cage-like basket
kHangul	농:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5259
kKorean	NONG
kRSUnicode	118.16
kTotalStrokes	22