U+F962 "異" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F962 "異" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, originally encoded to represent a variant or alternate form of the standard Chinese/Japanese character 異 (yì in Chinese, meaning different, strange, or unusual). It was included primarily for round-trip compatibility with older character encoding standards, such as certain versions of the CNS 11643 or KS X 1001 systems, where it appeared as a distinct glyph. This particular codepoint is considered a compatibility character rather than a unified ideograph, meaning it duplicates an existing character to preserve mapping from legacy character sets, and its use is generally discouraged in modern text in favor of its standard unified counterpart.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F962
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	"異" U+7570 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	異
HTML Hex Encoding	異
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF962
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F962
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf962

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	"異" U+7570 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"異" U+7570 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+7570
kDefinition	different, unusual, strange
kHangul	리:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5764
kKorean	LI
kRSUnicode	102.7
kTotalStrokes	11