U+F990 "戀" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F990 "戀" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph included in the Unicode standard specifically for roundtrip conversion with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as those used in early Korean or Japanese systems, where it corresponds to a variant form of the common CJK character for "love" (typically represented by U+604B). This particular glyph is not intended for general modern text use and is primarily preserved to maintain data integrity when documents encoded in legacy character sets are converted to Unicode. Its inclusion highlights Unicode’s goal of supporting historical and technical compatibility, even when the character may have a more standard modern equivalent.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F990
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	"戀" U+6200 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	戀
HTML Hex Encoding	戀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF990
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F990
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf990

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	"戀" U+6200 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"戀" U+6200 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+6200
kDefinition	love; long for, yearn for; love
kHangul	연:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6647
kKorean	YEN
kRSUnicode	61.19
kTotalStrokes	23