U+F952 "勒" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F952 "勒" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a glyph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically mapped as a compatibility variant of the standard CJK unified ideograph for the character usually meaning "to force" or "to restrain" (commonly represented as U+52A0 "勒" in modern Chinese and Japanese text). It was included in Unicode primarily to maintain round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as certain versions of the Chinese GB 18030 or Japanese JIS X 0208, where the character may have been assigned a distinct code point for historical or font-related reasons. Although it looks identical or nearly identical to its unified counterpart in most modern fonts, its presence ensures that legacy documents can be converted without loss of information.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F952
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	"勒" U+52D2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	勒
HTML Hex Encoding	勒
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF952
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F952
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf952

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	"勒" U+52D2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"勒" U+52D2 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+52D2
kDefinition	strangle, tighten
kHangul	늑:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5270
kKorean	NUK
kRSUnicode	19.9
kTotalStrokes	11