U+F955 "凌" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F955 "凌" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph primarily used in East Asian text processing, representing a variant form of a standard CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) character. It was included in the Unicode standard to preserve the exact shape of a character as it appeared in legacy character sets or specific vendor implementations, such as those from Adobe, Apple, or IBM, ensuring faithful round-trip conversion between older systems and modern encoding. In this case, U+F955 corresponds to a simplified or traditional Chinese character, often equivalent to the character at U+5E7F, but its specific usage is typically limited to compatibility contexts rather than standard writing or input.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F955
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	"凌" U+51CC CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	凌
HTML Hex Encoding	凌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF955
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F955
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf955

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	"凌" U+51CC CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"凌" U+51CC 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+51CC
kDefinition	pure; virtuous; insult; maltreat
kHangul	능:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5273
kKorean	NUNG
kRSUnicode	15.8
kTotalStrokes	10