U+F98E "年" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F98E "年" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a CJK compatibility ideograph representing the kanji/hanja/hanzi for "year" (年/年), but encoded specifically in the Unicode Compatibility Ideographs block to preserve a variant glyph form from legacy East Asian character sets, such as certain Japanese or Korean standards, for round-trip conversion compatibility. This character is not intended for general use in modern text, as it is a duplicate of the standard unified CJK ideograph for "year" (U+5E74 年), and its inclusion serves primarily historical and data interchange purposes, where it may appear in older documents or archives. Using it in new content is discouraged in favor of the unified form to maintain consistent text processing and avoid confusion.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F98E
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	"年" U+5E74 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	年
HTML Hex Encoding	年
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF98E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F98E
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf98e

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	"年" U+5E74 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"年" U+5E74 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+5E74
kDefinition	year; new-years; person's age
kHangul	연:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6644
kKorean	YEN
kRSUnicode	51.3
kTotalStrokes	6