U+F996 "練" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F996 "練" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph included in the Unicode standard for round trip compatibility with older East Asian encoding standards, such as CNS 11643, where it corresponds to the ideograph for the Korean reading "lyeon" or the Chinese reading "lian," meaning "to practice" or "to train." It is visually identical to the regular CJK Unified Ideograph U+B828 (连 or 練) but occupies a specific code point in the Compatibility Ideographs block to preserve text fidelity when converting from legacy character sets. Its use is generally discouraged in modern text, as it is intended solely for mapping purposes rather than new document creation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F996
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	"練" U+7DF4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	練
HTML Hex Encoding	練
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF996
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F996
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf996

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	"練" U+7DF4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"練" U+7DF4 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+7DF4
kDefinition	practice, drill, exercise, train
kHangul	연:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-665F
kKorean	YEN
kNelson	3569
kRSUnicode	120.9
kTotalStrokes	15