U+F916 "烙" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F916 "烙" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph defined in the Unicode standard's CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included primarily to facilitate round trip conversion with older East Asian character encoding standards such as Shift JIS or CNS 11643. This particular character represents a variant or duplicate mapping of a CJK unified ideograph, often corresponding to the character for "brand" or "iron" (U+7149, 烙), but it is rendered with a different glyph shape in certain legacy fonts. Its primary function is to preserve the original visual form from those older standards, meaning it may appear identical to its unified counterpart in modern text but is treated as a separate code point for compatibility purposes.