U+F995 "秊" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F995 "秊" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph within the Unicode standard, specifically defined for roundtrip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as certain Japanese or Chinese industry-specific character sets. This character represents the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph for "year" or "age" (commonly written as 年 in standard Unicode), but it is encoded in the Compatibility Ideographs block to preserve the exact glyph shape and mapping from legacy systems without affecting the canonical representation of the standard character. Its inclusion ensures that text converted from older encoding systems retains its original visual form, though it is not typically used in modern, unicode-native text and may display differently depending on font and platform support.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F995
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	"秊" U+79CA CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	秊
HTML Hex Encoding	秊
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF995
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F995
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf995

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	"秊" U+79CA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"秊" U+79CA 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+79CA
kDefinition	year; new-years; person's age
kHangul	연:0
kIRG_GSource	GU-0F995
kIRG_KSource	K0-665C
kKorean	YEN
kRSUnicode	115.3
kTotalStrokes	8