U+F96E "葉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F96E "葉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that represents the Chinese character for "leaf" or "petal," corresponding to the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+8449, which is used in various East Asian writing systems including Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This specific code point belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was designed to preserve the original, often simplified or variant, shapes of characters from older character set standards like CNS 11643 or IBM's code pages, ensuring round-trip compatibility in text encoding conversions. Despite its distinct encoding, U+F96E is identical in meaning and usage to its unified counterpart, though it is not recommended for new text creation and is primarily maintained for historical data interchange purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F96E
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	"葉" U+8449 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	葉
HTML Hex Encoding	葉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF96E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F96E
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf96e

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	"葉" U+8449 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"葉" U+8449 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+8449
kDefinition	leaf, petal; page of book; period
kHangul	섭:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6071
kKorean	SEP
kRSUnicode	140.9
kTotalStrokes	12