U+F9AA "寧" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9AA "寧" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph used in East Asian text processing, specifically representing a variant or duplicate form of the CJK unified ideograph for the Chinese character "寧" (meaning "peaceful" or "rather"), but encoded in the Compatibility Ideographs block to preserve roundtrip conversion fidelity with older character set standards such as Japanese JIS X 0208. Unlike unified CJK characters, this compatibility character is intended for interchange with legacy systems and is generally not recommended for use in modern text, as its appearance and meaning are identical to its unified counterpart, with the primary distinction being its specialized encoding history.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9AA
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	"寧" U+5BE7 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	寧
HTML Hex Encoding	寧
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9AA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9AA
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9aa

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	"寧" U+5BE7 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"寧" U+5BE7 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+5BE7
kDefinition	repose, serenity, peace; peaceful
kHangul	영:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-672C
kKorean	YENG
kRSUnicode	40.11
kTotalStrokes	14