U+F988 "麗" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F988 "麗" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph in the Unicode standard, specifically part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block. This character is a duplicate or variant form of a regular CJK unified ideograph, designed to maintain round-trip compatibility with older encoding standards like CNS 11643, which may have treated it as a distinct code point. Unlike standard CJK characters, compatibility ideographs like U+F988 are not intended for general text usage but are preserved to allow correct conversion between legacy encodings and Unicode without data loss. Its precise meaning or usage corresponds to the same character or variant found in traditional Chinese or Japanese character sets, but its specific semantic role is tied to its origin in pre-Unicode encoding systems rather than modern written language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F988
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	"麗" U+9E97 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	麗
HTML Hex Encoding	麗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF988
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F988
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf988

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	"麗" U+9E97 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"麗" U+9E97 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+9E97
kDefinition	beautiful, magnificent, elegant
kHangul	여:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6630
kKorean	YE
kRSUnicode	198.8
kTotalStrokes	19