U+F9AF "羚" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9AF "羚" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which exists primarily to aid in round-trip conversion between older East Asian character encoding standards and Unicode. This particular ideograph is a compatibility variant of a standard CJK Unified Ideograph, meaning it represents a character that originally appeared in a specific legacy encoding, such as the Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS), to preserve that encoding's exact glyph shape or sequence when mapped to Unicode. Its inclusion allows documents and systems using older character sets to migrate to Unicode without losing the original visual representation of the ideograph, though it is generally not recommended for use in new text in favor of its unified counterpart.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9AF
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	"羚" U+7F9A CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	羚
HTML Hex Encoding	羚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9AF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9AF
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9af

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	"羚" U+7F9A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"羚" U+7F9A 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+7F9A
kDefinition	species of antelope
kHangul	영:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6746
kKorean	YENG
kNelson	3663
kRSUnicode	123.5
kTotalStrokes	11