U+F9B4 "領" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9B4 "領" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that represents a variant or duplicate form of the standard CJK unified ideograph for the Chinese character "領" (meaning collar, neck, or to lead), primarily used in legacy East Asian character sets like those from Korea or Japan. It was encoded in the Unicode standard in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block to ensure round-trip conversion with older encoding systems, such as KS X 1001 or the Korean Industrial Standard, where this specific glyph shape or the character's source reference differed from the unified version. Although it may visually appear identical to the unified character in many modern fonts, its inclusion preserves historical text fidelity and avoids information loss when converting documents from older character sets to Unicode. This ideograph is not intended for new text input, and usage is generally discouraged in favor of its unified counterpart U+9818 "領" to maintain consistency and simplicity

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9B4
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	"領" U+9818 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	領
HTML Hex Encoding	領
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9B4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9B4
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9b4

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	"領" U+9818 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"領" U+9818 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+9818
kDefinition	neck; collar; lead, guide
kHangul	영:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6750
kKorean	YENG
kRSUnicode	181.5
kTotalStrokes	14