U+F9A8 "令" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F9A8 "令" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically encoded to represent the character for "令" (meaning "order," "command," or "cause") as it appears in a traditional Chinese or Japanese context. Its primary purpose is to support roundtrip conversion with older standards like CNS 11643 or JIS X 0213, where this variant form of the character may have distinct encoding, rather than to introduce a new or separate semantic meaning. While visually similar to the standard CJK Unified Ideograph for "令" (U+4EE4), this compatibility character exists to preserve the exact glyph or source mapping from legacy character sets, ensuring that text can be faithfully converted between systems without loss of information.

General Properties

Code Point U+F9A8
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 "令" U+4EE4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 令
HTML Hex Encoding 令
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA6 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF9A8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F9A8
C/C++/Java Escape \uf9a8

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 "令" U+4EE4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "令" U+4EE4 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+4EE4
kDefinition command, order; 'commandant', magistrate; allow, cause
kHangul 영:0
kIRG_KSource K0-6729
kKorean YENG
kRSUnicode 9.3
kTotalStrokes 5