U+F98A "力" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F98A "力" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that represents the same semantic concept as its standard CJK Unified Ideograph counterpart, U+529B, which is the character for "power" or "strength." This specific character belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a collection of characters encoded primarily to ensure round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as those used in legacy Japanese and Chinese text systems. While it appears identical or very similar to the unified character, its purpose is to preserve the exact mapping from those original standards rather than to introduce a distinct meaning or usage in modern text. As a result, it is rarely used in contemporary writing, serving instead as a historical artifact in digital representation.

General Properties

Code Point U+F98A
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 "力" U+529B CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 力
HTML Hex Encoding 力
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA6 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF98A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F98A
C/C++/Java Escape \uf98a

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 "力" U+529B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "力" U+529B 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+529B
kDefinition power, capability, influence
kHangul 역:0
kIRG_KSource K0-6633
kKorean YEK
kRSUnicode 19.0
kTotalStrokes 2