U+F9A7 "獵" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F9A7 "獵" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was primarily designed to preserve roundtrip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as those used in legacy Japanese or Korean systems. This specific character is a duplicate or variant form of a standard CJK Unified Ideograph, and it typically represents the same meaning and usage as its unified counterpart but exists in the compatibility block to ensure that text encoded in older formats can be mapped to Unicode without data loss. In practical use, the character is generally considered a compatibility artifact and is rarely needed in modern text, as its function is served by the equivalent unified ideograph in the main CJK Unified Ideographs block.

General Properties

Code Point U+F9A7
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 "獵" U+7375 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 獵
HTML Hex Encoding 獵
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA6 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF9A7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F9A7
C/C++/Java Escape \uf9a7

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 "獵" U+7375 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "獵" U+7375 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+7375
kDefinition hunt; field sports
kHangul 엽:0
kIRG_KSource K0-6726
kKorean YEP
kRSUnicode 94.15
kTotalStrokes 18