U+F98B "曆" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F98B "曆" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically designated for use in East Asian text processing systems. It represents a variant form of a standard CJK unified ideograph, often used in legacy character sets or historical documents to ensure round-trip conversion compatibility with older encoding standards. The character itself corresponds to a specific Chinese character, typically associated with meanings related to the concept of "calendar" or "almanac" depending on context, though its primary function in Unicode is to preserve the original glyph shape from source standards rather than to introduce a new semantic meaning.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F98B
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	"曆" U+66C6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	曆
HTML Hex Encoding	曆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF98B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F98B
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf98b

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	"曆" U+66C6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"曆" U+66C6 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+66C6
kDefinition	calendar, era
kHangul	역:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6637
kKorean	YEK
kRSUnicode	72.12
kTotalStrokes	16