U+F9A0 "裂" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9A0 "裂" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph primarily used in the context of East Asian text processing and legacy character set conversion. It represents a variant or duplicate of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+88C2, which means "split" or "crack" in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. This particular character falls under the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a special Unicode range created to preserve the distinct coding of characters that appear in older character encoding standards like CNS 11643 or KS X 1001, ensuring that documents using these legacy systems can be accurately represented in modern Unicode text without loss of information.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9A0
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	"裂" U+88C2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	裂
HTML Hex Encoding	裂
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9A0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9A0
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9a0

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	"裂" U+88C2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"裂" U+88C2 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+88C2
kDefinition	split, crack, break open; rend
kHangul	열:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6671
kKorean	YEL
kRSUnicode	145.6
kTotalStrokes	12