U+F9CC "琉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9CC "琉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph included in the Unicode standard to represent a variant or duplicate form of a common Chinese character, specifically corresponding to the standard CJK unified ideograph U+94CE (鋎), which means “a kind of tool or weapon” and is used in historical or specialized contexts. This character is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was created to preserve the original encoding from earlier East Asian character sets, such as those used in Japanese or Korean computing systems, to ensure round trip conversion between different standards. It is considered a compatibility character and is generally not intended for typical modern text, as its meaning and function are identical to its unified counterpart.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9CC
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	"琉" U+7409 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	琉
HTML Hex Encoding	琉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9CC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9CC
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9cc

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	"琉" U+7409 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"琉" U+7409 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+7409
kDefinition	sparkling stone; glazed, opaque
kHangul	유:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6B24
kKorean	YU
kRSUnicode	96.6
kTotalStrokes	10