U+F9A2 "廉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9A2 "廉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph originating from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, specifically encoded for round trip compatibility with older character encoding standards like the Korean KS X 1001. It represents the same underlying Han character as the unified CJK ideograph U+9023, which corresponds to the Chinese character for "lian" (meaning to connect or join), but in a different presentation form. This character is not intended for general use in modern text, as it exists primarily to preserve the exact glyph shape from legacy standards, and the Unicode Standard recommends using the unified CJK form (U+9023) instead.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9A2
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	"廉" U+5EC9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	廉
HTML Hex Encoding	廉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9A2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9A2
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9a2

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	"廉" U+5EC9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"廉" U+5EC9 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+5EC9
kDefinition	upright, honorable, honest
kHangul	염:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6675
kKorean	YEM
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14095+53.3.10
kRSUnicode	53.10
kTotalStrokes	13