U+F985 "礪" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F985 "礪" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which contains ideographs that were originally encoded for compatibility with older East Asian character sets, such as those used in Korean or Japanese standards. This specific character represents a rare or variant form of a Chinese character, often used in historical or specialized contexts, and its assigned code point falls within a range intended to ensure round-trip conversion between Unicode and legacy character encodings without loss of information.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F985
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	"礪" U+792A CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	礪
HTML Hex Encoding	礪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF985
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F985
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf985

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	"礪" U+792A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"礪" U+792A 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+792A
kDefinition	whetstone; sharpen
kHangul	여:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6627
kKorean	YE
kRSUnicode	112.15
kTotalStrokes	19