U+F97E "量" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F97E "量" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which represents the Chinese character meaning "quantity," "capacity," or "measure," often used in traditional contexts. It is encoded specifically for round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards like CNS 11643 and Big5, where it was assigned a unique code point. This character is visually identical or nearly identical to its standard CJK Unified Ideograph counterpart U+91CF "量", but it is included in Unicode solely to preserve the exact mapping from these legacy systems without semantic distinction. Its primary purpose is to support the conversion and interchange of text from pre-Unicode systems, ensuring that documents encoded in those older standards can be accurately represented in Unicode without loss of information.

General Properties

Code Point U+F97E
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 "量" U+91CF CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 量
HTML Hex Encoding 量
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA5 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF97E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F97E
C/C++/Java Escape \uf97e

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 "量" U+91CF CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "量" U+91CF 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+91CF
kDefinition measure, quantity, capacity
kHangul 양:0
kIRG_KSource K0-6556
kKorean YANG
kRSUnicode 166.5
kTotalStrokes 12