U+F978 "兩" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F978 "兩" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility block, included to encode a variant form of the common Chinese character that represents the number "two" or serves as a phonetic component in certain compounds, such as in the word for "cool" or "mugwort." This specific code point was defined in Unicode primarily for round trip conversion compatibility with older East Asian character set standards like CNS 11643 or other legacy encoding systems, where it appears as a distinct glyph. Unlike unified CJK ideographs, which are intended for modern standardized usage, compatibility characters like U+F978 preserve historical or non standard typographic variants without merging them into a single encoded form.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F978
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	"兩" U+5169 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	兩
HTML Hex Encoding	兩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF978
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F978
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf978

Unicode Properties

Full Composition Exclusion	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	2
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"兩" U+5169 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"兩" U+5169 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+5169
kDefinition	two, both, pair, couple; ounce
kHangul	양:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-653B
kKorean	YANG
kNelson	0034
kRSUnicode	11.6
kTotalStrokes	8