U+F99A "連" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F99A "連" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a CJK compatibility ideograph primarily representing the character "連" (meaning "connect" or "link") from the Kangxi Dictionary and older text sources. It exists in the compatibility block, which was created to preserve round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards like CNS 11643, rather than to encode a distinct modern meaning or usage. In practice, this character is a duplicate of the unified CJK character U+9023 "連" and should generally be avoided in new text, as its use is limited to legacy document conversion and specific historical contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F99A
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	"連" U+9023 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	連
HTML Hex Encoding	連
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF99A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F99A
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf99a

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	"連" U+9023 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"連" U+9023 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+9023
kDefinition	join, connect; continuous; even
kHangul	연:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6666
kKorean	YEN
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14097+162.4.7
kRSUnicode	162.7
kTotalStrokes	10