U+F9D3 "陸" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9D3 "陸" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a CJK compatibility ideograph that represents a variant form of the standard Chinese character 陸, which means "land" or "six" (the latter as a formal numeral used in financial contexts to prevent forgery). This specific encoding falls within the Unicode CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a range designed to preserve the distinct shapes of characters from older character set standards, such as those used in Japanese or Korean computing systems, for round trip conversion without losing original glyph variations. Unlike the unified CJK Unified Ideographs, compatibility ideographs like U+F9D3 are retained to ensure exact visual representation when text is processed or displayed in environments that previously relied on these separate forms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9D3
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	"陸" U+9678 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	陸
HTML Hex Encoding	陸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9D3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9D3
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9d3

Unicode Properties

Full Composition Exclusion	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	6
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"陸" U+9678 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"陸" U+9678 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+9678
kDefinition	land, continental; army
kHangul	육:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6B41
kKorean	YUK
kRSUnicode	170.8
kTotalStrokes	11