U+F9AD "玲" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F9AD "玲" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph used primarily in East Asian computing systems, representing a variant form of a Chinese character that is found in legacy character sets, such as those from Korean Hanja or Japanese kanji standards. This character is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block in Unicode, which was created to ensure roundtrip conversion between older encoding standards and Unicode without losing information. The specific glyph "玲" corresponds to a character that may be identical or visually similar to a standard CJK Unified Ideograph, but it is encoded separately in the compatibility block to preserve its distinct identity in older text data. Its usage is generally discouraged in modern text, as standard Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs should be used instead for new content.

General Properties

Code Point U+F9AD
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 "玲" U+73B2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 玲
HTML Hex Encoding 玲
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA6 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF9AD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F9AD
C/C++/Java Escape \uf9ad

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 "玲" U+73B2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "玲" U+73B2 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+73B2
kDefinition tinkling of jade
kHangul 영:0
kIRG_KSource K0-673F
kKorean YENG
kRSUnicode 96.5
kTotalStrokes 9