U+F999 "蓮" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F999 "蓮" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph in the Unicode standard, specifically part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block. It represents a variant or duplicate form of a common Chinese character, originally encoded for compatibility with older East Asian character sets such as those used in Japanese industrial standards or Chinese national standards, to preserve roundtrip conversion fidelity when mapping between different encoding systems. In modern usage, this character is typically considered a duplicate of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph for "ren" or other meanings, and its use is discouraged in favor of the unified version, with no distinct semantic or functional difference in contemporary text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F999
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	"蓮" U+84EE CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	蓮
HTML Hex Encoding	蓮
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF999
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F999
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf999

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	"蓮" U+84EE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"蓮" U+84EE 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+84EE
kDefinition	lotus, water lily; paradise
kHangul	연:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6665
kKorean	YEN
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+7811+140.3.11
kRSUnicode	140.11
kTotalStrokes	13