U+F980 "呂" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F980 "呂" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was encoded primarily to preserve the round-trip integrity of text converted from legacy character sets used in East Asian computing systems. This particular character is a variant of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph for the Chinese character meaning "female" or "woman," similar to U+5973 "女," but it appears in a specialized compatibility form often used in older or proprietary encoding standards. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that documents originally encoded using such systems can be accurately represented without losing data, though it is typically discouraged for new text, as the unified character is preferred in modern usage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F980
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	"呂" U+5442 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	呂
HTML Hex Encoding	呂
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF980
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F980
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf980

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	"呂" U+5442 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"呂" U+5442 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+5442
kDefinition	surname; a musical note
kHangul	여:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-657B
kKorean	YE
kRSUnicode	30.4
kTotalStrokes	7