U+F969 "數" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F969 "數" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility block, included primarily to support round-trip conversion with older East Asian character set standards, such as certain versions of JIS or CNS. This specific character is a variant or compatibility form of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph for the character "数" or "數", which means "number" or "to count" in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Unlike its unified counterpart, U+F969 is classified as a compatibility character and is not intended for general modern text usage, as its use can lead to inconsistencies in text processing and interchange. It represents a historical encoding artifact rather than a distinct linguistic meaning.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F969
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	"數" U+6578 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	數
HTML Hex Encoding	數
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF969
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F969
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf969

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	"數" U+6578 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"數" U+6578 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+6578
kDefinition	number; several; count; fate
kHangul	삭:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5E7C
kKorean	SAK
kRSUnicode	66.11
kTotalStrokes	15