U+F9A4 "捻" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9A4 "捻" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a Han character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically identified as a compatibility ideograph derived from a source standard used for encoding characters that have the same meaning and shape as other Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs but were originally assigned separate codes for legacy compatibility. In this case, U+F9A4 corresponds to the standard CJK character U+6BCB "毋" (wú), which means "do not" or "don't" in Chinese and Japanese. This compatibility character is included primarily to ensure round-trip fidelity with older character set standards, such as those from Japan or Korea, and it should generally be avoided in modern text in favor of its unified equivalent.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9A4
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	"捻" U+637B CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	捻
HTML Hex Encoding	捻
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9A4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9A4
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9a4

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	"捻" U+637B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"捻" U+637B 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+637B
kDefinition	to twist, nip with the fingers
kHangul	염:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6677
kKorean	YEM
kRSUnicode	64.8
kTotalStrokes	11