U+F963 "北" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F963 "北" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the Unicode CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was primarily included for round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encodings such as those used in pre‑Unicode Japanese (Shift JIS), Korean, or Chinese systems. This specific character represents an archaic or variant form of the CJK unified ideograph for "north" (generally written as 北), and its usage in modern text is rare outside of preserving the exact glyph forms from legacy databases or historical documents. As a compatibility ideograph, it is not recommended for general text exchange or typing, as standard Unicode recommends using the unified character (U+5317 北) for the meaning of "north" instead.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F963
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	"北" U+5317 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	北
HTML Hex Encoding	北
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF963
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F963
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf963

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	"北" U+5317 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"北" U+5317 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+5317
kDefinition	north; northern; northward
kHangul	배:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5B45
kKorean	PEY
kNelson	0020
kRSUnicode	21.3
kTotalStrokes	5