U+F95E "丹" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F95E "丹" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specific glyph classified under the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was designed primarily for roundtrip mapping with legacy character encoding standards to ensure that older text could be represented in Unicode without loss of information. This particular character corresponds to a variant form of a CJK ideograph, likely representing a Chinese character that may have been used in historical or specialized contexts such as names, technical documents, or traditional typography. Unlike standard CJK Unified Ideographs, which are encoded for general modern use, compatibility ideographs like U+F95E are generally not recommended for new text creation because they duplicate or closely resemble other characters in the unified block, and their usage is often discouraged in favor of the canonical unified form to promote consistency and avoid confusion in digital text processing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F95E
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	"丹" U+4E39 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	丹
HTML Hex Encoding	丹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF95E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F95E
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf95e

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	"丹" U+4E39 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"丹" U+4E39 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+4E39
kDefinition	cinnabar (native HgS); vermilion (artificial HgS used as pigment)
kHangul	란:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-552E
kKorean	LAN
kRSUnicode	3.3
kTotalStrokes	4