U+F958 "菱" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F958 "菱" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph included in the Unicode standard to represent a specific Chinese character that is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block but was encoded in the Compatibility Ideographs area to preserve roundtrip fidelity with older East Asian character set standards. It corresponds to a traditional character, often identified with the meaning of "lotus" or "water lily" (as in the more standard character 蓮 ), though its specific usage and exact interpretation depend on the context and the source standard from which it was derived. This character is not typically used in modern text and exists primarily for historical or archival data interchange, ensuring that documents converted from legacy encoding systems retain their original glyph shapes.

General Properties

Code Point U+F958
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 "菱" U+83F1 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 菱
HTML Hex Encoding 菱
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA5 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF958
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F958
C/C++/Java Escape \uf958

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 "菱" U+83F1 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "菱" U+83F1 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+83F1
kDefinition water-chestnut, water caltrop
kHangul 능:0
kIRG_KSource K0-5277
kKorean NUNG
kRSUnicode 140.8
kTotalStrokes 11