U+F9BC "寮" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F9BC "寮" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specific, and in modern usage, rare and primarily historical, Han character that was encoded in the Unicode standard's Compatibility Ideographs block to ensure round-trip conversion compatibility with older, pre-existing character set standards, notably those from East Asia. This particular glyph is a duplicate or variant form of a more standard Chinese character (often corresponding to the character pronounced "tang" or similar in Chinese or Korean contexts), but it was preserved in Unicode not for general modern text use, but to allow legacy documents and software to accurately represent their original digital content without information loss when converted between encoding systems. As a compatibility character, it is generally not recommended for use in new text creation, as its function has been largely superseded by the unified CJK unified ideographs.

General Properties

Code Point U+F9BC
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 "寮" U+5BEE CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 寮
HTML Hex Encoding 寮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA6 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF9BC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F9BC
C/C++/Java Escape \uf9bc

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 "寮" U+5BEE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "寮" U+5BEE 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+5BEE
kDefinition shanty, hut, shack
kHangul 요:0
kIRG_KSource K0-6870
kKorean YO
kRSUnicode 40.12
kTotalStrokes 15