U+F9FC "識" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F9FC "識" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a special character in the Unicode standard, representing a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) ideograph that appears in the Compatibility Ideographs block rather than the main CJK Unified Ideographs block. It corresponds to the character 識, which means "to know," "to recognize," or "knowledge" in various East Asian languages. The purpose of compatibility ideographs like U+F9FC is to encode characters that originated from legacy character sets or industry standards, such as those used in older Japanese or Korean encoding systems, to ensure round-trip conversion and data integrity. However, users are generally discouraged from using this code point in new text, as it is a duplicate of the unified character U+8B58 and is intended solely for compatibility with older documents or systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+F9FC
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 "識" U+8B58 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 識
HTML Hex Encoding 識
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA7 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF9FC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F9FC
C/C++/Java Escape \uf9fc

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 "識" U+8B58 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "識" U+8B58 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+8B58
kDefinition recognize, understand, know
kHangul 지:0
kIRG_KSource K0-723D
kKorean CI
kRSUnicode 149.12
kTotalStrokes 19