U+F9A3 "念" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9A3 "念" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that represents the same meaning as the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+5FF5 "念", which signifies "to think of," "to recall," or "to read aloud" in Chinese and Japanese. It is part of a block of CJK Compatibility Ideographs that were encoded primarily to preserve roundtrip conversion with older character sets, such as those used in Japanese or Korean encoding standards, where distinct glyphs were mapped separately. Unlike the unified version, this character is considered a compatibility variant and is generally not recommended for use in modern text, as it may cause interoperability issues with systems that prefer the standard, unified form.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9A3
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	"念" U+5FF5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	念
HTML Hex Encoding	念
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9A3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9A3
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9a3

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	"念" U+5FF5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"念" U+5FF5 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+5FF5
kDefinition	think of, recall, study
kHangul	염:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6676
kKorean	YEM
kRSUnicode	61.4
kTotalStrokes	8