U+F96D "省" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F96D "省" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically mapped to the standard CJK unified ideograph U+7701 "省" which means "province" or "to save" in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It was included in Unicode for round-trip compatibility with older character encoding standards, such as KS C 5601 in Korea, where a variant form of this character was separately encoded. As a compatibility character, its primary use is in preserving the original appearance of text from legacy systems, and it is generally recommended to use its unified equivalent U+7701 for modern text processing wherever possible.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F96D
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	"省" U+7701 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	省
HTML Hex Encoding	省
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF96D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F96D
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf96d

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	"省" U+7701 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"省" U+7701 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+7701
kDefinition	province; save, economize
kHangul	생:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5F68
kKorean	SAYNG
kRSUnicode	109.4
kTotalStrokes	9