U+F953 "肋" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F953 "肋" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that represents a variant form of a common Chinese character, specifically a version of the character "肋" (meaning rib or costal area). It was encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block to preserve the exact glyph shape used in older character set standards, such as those from the Chinese National Standard CNS 11643 or the Korean KS X 1001, for the purpose of round-trip conversion between these legacy encodings and Unicode. This character is not intended for general modern text usage, as its meaning and function are identical to its standard counterpart, and it exists primarily to ensure backward compatibility with historical data.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F953
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	"肋" U+808B CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	肋
HTML Hex Encoding	肋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF953
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F953
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf953

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	"肋" U+808B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"肋" U+808B 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+808B
kDefinition	ribs; chest
kHangul	늑:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5271
kKorean	NUK
kNelson	3725
kRSUnicode	130.2
kTotalStrokes	6