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
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
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 |