U+F974 "若" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F974 "若" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically encoded to represent a variant form of a common Chinese character. This character corresponds to the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+82E5, which is the word "ruo" meaning "if" or "like" in Chinese and Japanese, but is included in this separate compatibility zone primarily to maintain round-trip compatibility with older character set standards such as CNS 11643 or other legacy encoding systems. As a compatibility character, it carries the same semantic meaning as its unified counterpart but can introduce subtle differences in appearance or encoding context depending on the font and software environment, making it useful for preserving original text fidelity in documents converted from earlier formats.

General Properties

Code Point U+F974
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 "若" U+82E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 若
HTML Hex Encoding 若
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA5 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF974
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F974
C/C++/Java Escape \uf974

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 "若" U+82E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "若" U+82E5 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+82E5
kDefinition if, supposing, assuming; similar
kHangul 야:0
kIRG_KSource K0-652E
kKorean YA
kRSUnicode 140.5
kTotalStrokes 8