U+F99D "劣" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F99D "劣" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that represents the same underlying Chinese character as the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+8611, which is "劣" meaning inferior or poor quality in Japanese contexts, where it is often used as a simplified or variant form found in legacy character sets like JIS X 0208. This character falls within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was specifically encoded to preserve round-trip compatibility with older encoding standards, ensuring that text converted from those systems retains its original visual representation even when the character duplicates an existing unified ideograph.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F99D
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	"劣" U+52A3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	劣
HTML Hex Encoding	劣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF99D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F99D
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf99d

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	"劣" U+52A3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"劣" U+52A3 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+52A3
kDefinition	bad, inferior; slightly
kHangul	열:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-666B
kKorean	YEL
kRSUnicode	19.4
kTotalStrokes	6