U+F9AC "怜" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9AC "怜" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character found within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode primarily to facilitate round-trip conversion between legacy East Asian encoding standards and modern Unicode text. This specific character is a compatibility ideograph that corresponds to a variant or duplicate form of an ordinary CJK Unified Ideograph, and it represents a Japanese or Chinese character used in historical or specialized text. Its purpose is not to introduce a new meaning but to preserve the exact glyph shape from an older character set, ensuring that documents encoded in those systems can be accurately converted without loss of information.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9AC
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	"怜" U+601C CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	怜
HTML Hex Encoding	怜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9AC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9AC
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9ac

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	"怜" U+601C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"怜" U+601C 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+601C
kDefinition	pity, sympathize
kHangul	영:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6730
kKorean	YENG
kRSUnicode	61.5
kTotalStrokes	8