U+F9DC "隆" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9DC "隆" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode primarily to support roundtrip conversion with legacy character encoding standards from East Asia, such as those used in pre-Unicode Japanese systems. This specific character, visually identical to the ordinary CJK Unified Ideograph for "long" or "dragon" (U+964D or U+9F8D in some contexts), represents a duplicate code point introduced for compatibility purposes, and its usage is generally discouraged in favor of its unified counterpart in modern text processing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9DC
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	"隆" U+9686 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	隆
HTML Hex Encoding	隆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9DC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9DC
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9dc

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	"隆" U+9686 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"隆" U+9686 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+9686
kDefinition	prosperous, plentiful, abundant
kHangul	융:0
kIBMJapan	FBE9
kIRG_JSource	J3-7D5D
kIRG_KSource	K0-6B58
kJIS0213	1,93,61
kKorean	YUNG
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13393+170.3.9
kRSUnicode	170.9
kTotalStrokes	12