U+F994 "璉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F994 "璉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was originally derived from pre-existing encoding standards to ensure roundtrip compatibility with legacy systems rather than representing a distinct modern usage. This specific character corresponds to a rare or variant Chinese character, likely related to the standard CJK unified ideograph found elsewhere in Unicode, such as U+714E or similar, and is rarely used in contemporary text. Its primary purpose lies in preserving the exact representation of older digital documents or databases that relied on proprietary character sets, making it a technical artifact rather than a commonly encountered glyph.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F994
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	"璉" U+7489 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	璉
HTML Hex Encoding	璉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF994
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F994
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf994

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	"璉" U+7489 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"璉" U+7489 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+7489
kDefinition	vessel used to hold grain offerings
kHangul	연:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6659
kKorean	YEN
kRSUnicode	96.11
kTotalStrokes	14