U+F9B2 "零" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9B2 "零" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility variant of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph for "zero" or "null" (U+96F6 零), sourced from a collection of precomposed forms used in historical or specialized East Asian character sets. It is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which exists in Unicode primarily to preserve the exact glyph shapes and encoding positions from older standards, such as Korean KS X 1001 or Japanese JIS X 0208, to prevent data corruption during text conversion. Despite its functional equivalence to the ordinary "zero" character, this specific code point is designated as a compatibility ideograph and is not intended for general use in modern text, as it carries no unique semantic meaning beyond its base form.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9B2
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	"零" U+96F6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	零
HTML Hex Encoding	零
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9B2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9B2
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9b2

Unicode Properties

Full Composition Exclusion	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	0
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"零" U+96F6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"零" U+96F6 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+96F6
kDefinition	zero; fragment, fraction
kHangul	영:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-674D
kKorean	YENG LYEN
kRSUnicode	173.5
kTotalStrokes	13