U+F96A "索" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F96A "索" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) block, specifically a character originally used in legacy East Asian character sets that has been mapped to this code point for round-trip conversion with older standards. It represents a variant of the traditional Chinese character for "cord" or "to seek," closely related to the standard CJK unified ideograph U+7D22 (索). Part of the compatibility ideographs, these characters were encoded to preserve the exact appearance and structural differences present in older encoding schemes, rather than introducing new semantic meaning. As a result, U+F96A is primarily used in contexts where fidelity to historical text representations is required, such as in document archiving or font rendering from legacy systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F96A
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	"索" U+7D22 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	索
HTML Hex Encoding	索
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF96A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F96A
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf96a

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	"索" U+7D22 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"索" U+7D22 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+7D22
kDefinition	large rope, cable; rules, laws
kHangul	삭:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5E7E
kKorean	SAK
kRSUnicode	120.4
kTotalStrokes	10