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
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
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 |