U+F979 "凉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F979 "凉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph included in the Unicode standard to represent a variant or simplified form of the Chinese character 涼, which means "cool" or "cold." It falls within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a section specifically designed to encode duplicate characters from legacy East Asian character sets, such as those used in early Japanese and Korean computing systems. This character is classified as a compatibility ideograph because it has the same semantic meaning and usage as its standard counterpart but differs in visual representation, typically never used in modern writing outside specialized contexts like historical or graphical interoperability.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F979
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	"凉" U+51C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	凉
HTML Hex Encoding	凉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF979
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F979
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf979

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	"凉" U+51C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"凉" U+51C9 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+51C9
kDefinition	cool, cold; disheartened
kHangul	양:0
kIRG_GSource	GU-0F979
kIRG_KSource	K0-653C
kKorean	YANG
kRSUnicode	15.8
kTotalStrokes	10