U+F9C0 "燎" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9C0 "燎" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically designed to preserve the shape and semantics of a variant Chinese character that exists in legacy East Asian character encodings for compatibility purposes, such as those used in older Japanese industrial standards. This character represents a standardized form of a CJK ideograph that may have subtle stroke or radical differences from its Unified CJK counterpart in the main Unicode block, allowing for faithful round trip conversion with encoding systems like Shift JIS or CNS 11643 without losing original typographic detail. Its usage is primarily historical and technical, ensuring that documents or data from pre Unicode environments retain their intended appearance and meaning when processed in modern systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9C0
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	"燎" U+71CE CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	燎
HTML Hex Encoding	燎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9C0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9C0
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9c0

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	"燎" U+71CE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"燎" U+71CE 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+71CE
kDefinition	to burn, set afire; to illuminate; a signal lamp
kHangul	요:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-687B
kKorean	YO
kRSUnicode	86.12
kTotalStrokes	16