U+F96C "塞" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F96C "塞" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility block, designed primarily to facilitate round-trip conversion with older East Asian character encoding standards such as CNS 11643 or other pre-Unicode systems. This character corresponds to a variant or duplicate representation of a more standard CJK unified ideograph, often used in traditional Chinese contexts where specific legacy code points had to be preserved. Ideographs in this compatibility range are not recommended for general text composition, as their use is intended for historical or interoperability purposes rather than for modern writing; they should be replaced by their unified counterparts whenever possible to ensure consistent encoding and processing across different systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F96C
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	"塞" U+585E CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	塞
HTML Hex Encoding	塞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF96C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F96C
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf96c

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	"塞" U+585E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"塞" U+585E 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+585E
kDefinition	stop up, block. seal, cork
kHangul	색:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5F61
kKorean	SAYK
kRSUnicode	32.10
kTotalStrokes	13