U+F989 "黎" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F989 "黎" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph derived from the Japanese JIS X 0208 standard, specifically representing the kanji for "black" (a variant form of 黎), and is classified under the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block. It was included in Unicode primarily to ensure round-trip conversion compatibility with legacy character encoding systems, preserving the precise glyph shape from the original standard rather than merging it with other unified CJK characters. Despite its technical purpose, this code point is now considered a duplicate and is generally not recommended for use in modern text, as it has a unified equivalent (U+9ECE) in the main CJK Unified Ideographs block.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F989
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	"黎" U+9ECE CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	黎
HTML Hex Encoding	黎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF989
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F989
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf989

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	"黎" U+9ECE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"黎" U+9ECE 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+9ECE
kDefinition	surname; numerous, many; black
kHangul	여:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6631
kKorean	YE
kRSUnicode	202.3
kTotalStrokes	15