U+F98F "憐" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F98F "憐" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) block, specifically designated as a compatibility character rather than a standard unified CJK ideograph. It represents a variant or duplicate form of a common East Asian character, corresponding to the standard character "憐" or its simplified equivalent, which is typically read as "lian" in Chinese and used in words like "怜" meaning pity or love. The "compatibility" tag indicates that this code point was included in Unicode to preserve roundtrip conversion with older character encoding standards, such as CNS 11643 or other legacy systems, and it is not recommended for general use in modern text as it may cause display or processing issues.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F98F
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	"憐" U+6190 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	憐
HTML Hex Encoding	憐
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF98F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F98F
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf98f

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	"憐" U+6190 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"憐" U+6190 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+6190
kDefinition	pity, sympathize
kHangul	연:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6646
kKorean	YEN
kRSUnicode	61.12
kTotalStrokes	15