U+F96F "說" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F96F "說" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically designed to represent a variant form of a Chinese character that appears in older or specialized character sets, such as those used in Japanese or Korean text encoding standards. This character is a duplicate or mapping of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+8AAC, which means "to speak" or "to say," but it is encoded in a separate compatibility block to preserve round-trip conversion compatibility with legacy systems like the CNS 11643 standard. Its primary use is in data interchange where preserving the exact original encoding is necessary, rather than for typical modern text composition.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F96F
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	"說" U+8AAA CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	說
HTML Hex Encoding	說
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF96F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F96F
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf96f

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	"說" U+8AAA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"說" U+8AAA 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+8AAA
kDefinition	speak, say, talk; scold, upbraid
kHangul	세:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-612D
kKorean	SEY
kRSUnicode	149.7
kTotalStrokes	14