U+F95A "讀" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F95A "讀" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that encodes a variant form of the Chinese character traditionally representing the concept of "reading" or "to read," which in standard Simplified Chinese is written as 读 and in Traditional Chinese as 讀. This specific character belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a collection of characters included for round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, where it was mapped as a distinct glyph rather than as a unified variant. Its use in modern digital text is generally discouraged in favor of the standard, unified CJK Unified Ideographs, as it primarily serves historical or display purposes in legacy systems rather than representing a unique linguistic or semantic distinction.

General Properties

Code Point U+F95A
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 "讀" U+8B80 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 讀
HTML Hex Encoding 讀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA5 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF95A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F95A
C/C++/Java Escape \uf95a

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 "讀" U+8B80 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "讀" U+8B80 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+8B80
kDefinition read, study; pronounce
kHangul 두:0
kIRG_KSource K0-5466
kKorean TWU
kNelson 4375
kRSUnicode 149.15
kTotalStrokes 22