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
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
Unihan Properties
| kCompatibilityVariant |
U+5DBA |
| kDefinition |
mountain ridge, mountain peak |
| kHangul |
영:0 |
| kIRG_KSource |
K0-672D |
| kKorean |
YENG |
| kRSUnicode |
46.14 |
| kTotalStrokes |
17 |