U+F981 "女" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F981 "女" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that represents the Chinese character for "woman" or "female," typically written as the standard CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) character 女. Unlike the unified CJK ideograph U+5973, which is used in modern text, this compatibility version was included in Unicode to preserve roundtrip conversion fidelity with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as CNS 11643, where specific glyphs or variant shapes were mapped to different code points. As a result, U+F981 is primarily intended for legacy data interchange and should be avoided in new content, as it serves no distinct semantic purpose beyond the standard character.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F981
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	"女" U+5973 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	女
HTML Hex Encoding	女
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF981
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F981
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf981

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	"女" U+5973 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"女" U+5973 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+5973
kDefinition	woman, girl; feminine; rad. 38
kHangul	여:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-657C
kKorean	YE
kRSUnicode	38.0
kTotalStrokes	3