U+F976 "略" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F976 "略" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specialized glyph found in the Compatibility Ideographs block, included primarily for round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards like CNS 11643 and Johab. It represents a variant form of the CJK Unified Ideograph for "략" (ryak), meaning "abbreviation" or "summary," but it is not intended for general text use in modern writing systems. Instead, this character exists to preserve the exact visual representation from legacy encoded data, ensuring that documents converted from those older systems display faithfully without loss of information. Its use is discouraged in favor of the standard unified character U+7565 "略" in contemporary contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F976
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	"略" U+7565 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	略
HTML Hex Encoding	略
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF976
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F976
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf976

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	"略" U+7565 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"略" U+7565 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+7565
kDefinition	approximately, roughly; outline
kHangul	약:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6532
kKorean	YAK
kRSUnicode	102.6
kTotalStrokes	11