U+F986 "閭" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F986 "閭" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was created to encode variant or duplicate forms of Chinese characters that were unified in the main CJK Unified Ideographs set, often preserving specific typographic or regional forms from legacy character sets. This particular ideograph represents a compatibility variant of the standard Chinese character "郎" (láng), which can mean "a young man," "a gentleman," or "a court official," and it is rarely used in modern text except for compatibility with older documents or specific font representations. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can faithfully reproduce the exact character shapes found in historical or specialized East Asian computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F986
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	"閭" U+95AD CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	閭
HTML Hex Encoding	閭
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF986
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F986
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf986

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	"閭" U+95AD CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"閭" U+95AD 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+95AD
kDefinition	village of twenty-five families
kHangul	여:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-662D
kKorean	YE
kRSUnicode	169.7
kTotalStrokes	15