U+F98C "歷" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F98C "歷" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph encoded in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which represents a variant form of the standard Chinese character meaning "history" or "calendar" (often corresponding to the common character 歷 or 曆). It was included in Unicode primarily to ensure round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as certain Japanese or Korean character sets, where this specific glyph was used as a distinct variant. As a compatibility character, U+F98C is discouraged for use in new plain text and is typically replaced by its unified CJK equivalent in modern applications, though it may appear in legacy documents or specialized contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F98C
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	"歷" U+6B77 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	歷
HTML Hex Encoding	歷
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF98C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F98C
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf98c

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	"歷" U+6B77 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"歷" U+6B77 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+6B77
kDefinition	take place, past, history
kHangul	역:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6638
kKorean	YEK
kNelson	0837
kRSUnicode	77.12
kTotalStrokes	16