U+F950 "縷" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F950 "縷" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a lesser known symbol from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, originally encoded for round trip compatibility with older East Asian character set standards. It represents a variant form of a Chinese character, specifically related to the word for a twist or a thread, though it is often mapped to the same underlying glyph as its standard counterpart in modern systems. This compatibility character serves as a bridge for preserving text from legacy encodings but is not typically used in contemporary writing. Its inclusion in Unicode highlights the effort to maintain data integrity across different encoding schemes without promoting new usage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F950
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	"縷" U+7E37 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	縷
HTML Hex Encoding	縷
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF950
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F950
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf950

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	"縷" U+7E37 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"縷" U+7E37 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+7E37
kDefinition	thread; detailed, precise
kHangul	누:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-526A
kKorean	NWU
kRSUnicode	120.11
kTotalStrokes	17