U+F99C "列" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F99C "列" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was encoded primarily to preserve round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character set standards, such as those used in Korea or Japan, rather than introducing a new semantic meaning. This particular character is a variant of the CJK unified ideograph U+5217 "列", which generally means "row", "line", or "to arrange". The compatibility ideograph U+F99C is visually and semantically identical to its unified counterpart, but it exists to support specific legacy mappings where a distinct code point was needed for interchange with systems that did not initially recognize the unified character. Its use in modern text is generally discouraged, as the unified version U+5217 is the standard and recommended representation for this character in Unicode.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F99C
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	"列" U+5217 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	列
HTML Hex Encoding	列
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF99C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F99C
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf99c

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	"列" U+5217 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"列" U+5217 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+5217
kDefinition	a line; to arrange in order, classify
kHangul	열:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-666A
kKorean	YEL
kRSUnicode	18.4
kTotalStrokes	6