U+F99B "鍊" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F99B "鍊" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically encoded for roundtrip mapping and preservation of the original layout in older East Asian character encoding standards, such as those used in legacy Japanese and Chinese systems. Its standard unified CJK counterpart is the character U+902B "連" or a related variant, but U+F99B exists solely to maintain exact representation of source text from older character sets, ensuring that documents encoded in these obsolete formats can be accurately converted to and from Unicode without loss of content.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F99B
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	"鍊" U+934A CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	鍊
HTML Hex Encoding	鍊
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF99B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F99B
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf99b

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	"鍊" U+934A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"鍊" U+934A 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+934A
kDefinition	smelt metals, forge; refine
kHangul	연:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6668
kKorean	YEN
kNelson	4881
kRSUnicode	167.9
kTotalStrokes	17