U+F9D6 "淪" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F9D6 "淪" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) block, specifically part of the Unicode standard’s collection of characters designed to represent forms found in legacy character sets or older encoding systems for East Asian scripts. This particular ideograph is a simplified or variant form of a traditional Chinese character that was unified with other standard CJK characters under the Unicode Han unification process, but it is retained in the compatibility block to preserve the exact visual representation used in older documents or systems, such as those from Japanese industrial standards or Chinese national standards. Its inclusion ensures backward compatibility and faithful text reproduction when converting from older encoding formats, though in modern usage it is typically replaced by its unified equivalent (U+6B0B "欋") in the main CJK Unified Ideographs block. The character itself is rarely used in contemporary writ

General Properties

Code Point U+F9D6
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 "淪" U+6DEA CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 淪
HTML Hex Encoding 淪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA7 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF9D6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F9D6
C/C++/Java Escape \uf9d6

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 "淪" U+6DEA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "淪" U+6DEA 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+6DEA
kDefinition be lost; sink, be submerged
kHangul 윤:0
kIRG_KSource K0-6B47
kKorean YUN
kRSUnicode 85.8
kTotalStrokes 11