U+F965 "便" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F965 "便" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was created to maintain roundtrip conversion between older East Asian character encodings and the Unicode standard. This specific character represents a variant of the Chinese character for "convenient" or "toilet" (simplified as 便), but its encoded form is distinct from the standard unified CJK ideograph U+4FBF primarily because it originates from a source character used in CNS 11643, a Taiwanese national standard, or other legacy character sets. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that documents encoded under these older systems can be transferred without data loss, though it is generally not recommended for use in new text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F965
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	"便" U+4FBF CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	便
HTML Hex Encoding	便
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF965
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F965
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf965

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	"便" U+4FBF CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"便" U+4FBF 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+4FBF
kDefinition	convenience, ease; expedient
kHangul	변:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5C25
kKorean	PYEN
kNelson	0451
kRSUnicode	9.7
kTotalStrokes	9