U+FA92 "朗" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA92 "朗" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode primarily to retain roundtrip compatibility with older character encoding standards like CNS 11643 where this glyph appears. This specific character represents a variant form of a standard CJK unification character, often used in historical or specialized text to preserve the exact shape of the original encoded glyph rather than conforming to modern unified representations. As a compatibility character, its use is generally discouraged in favor of its standard unified counterpart, as it duplicates semantic meaning without adding new linguistic value.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA92
Version Added	4.1
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	"朗" U+6717 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	朗
HTML Hex Encoding	朗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA92
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA92
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa92

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	"朗" U+6717 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"朗" U+6717 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+6717
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4A42
kRSUnicode	74.7
kTotalStrokes	10