U+F9AB "嶺" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F9AB "嶺" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph derived from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs, specifically representing a variant form of a character that appears in historical and older character sets, such as those used in Japanese or Korean computing environments. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode to preserve round-trip conversion with legacy encoding standards like CNS 11643 or KS X 1001, rather than as a distinct modern usage character. Its meaning corresponds to the standard CJK unified ideograph U+8F2C (郎), which is typically a variant of the character for "county" or "surname" in Chinese, but in this compatibility form, it serves as a mapping artifact rather than a practical writing symbol.

General Properties

Code Point U+F9AB
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 "嶺" U+5DBA CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 嶺
HTML Hex Encoding 嶺
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA6 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF9AB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F9AB
C/C++/Java Escape \uf9ab

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 "嶺" U+5DBA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "嶺" U+5DBA 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+5DBA
kDefinition mountain ridge, mountain peak
kHangul 영:0
kIRG_KSource K0-672D
kKorean YENG
kRSUnicode 46.14
kTotalStrokes 17