U+F93A "鷺" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F93A "鷺" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a Han character that appears in the Unicode standard as part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was created to unify characters with identical meanings and shapes that had been encoded separately in earlier East Asian character encoding standards, such as those for Japanese (JIS X 0208), Chinese (GB 2312), and Korean (KS C 5601). This specific character represents the Chinese character for "egret" or "heron" (generally pronounced "lù" in Mandarin) and corresponds to the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+9E6C. Its presence in the Compatibility Ideographs block indicates it is a duplicate of the unified version, retained solely for backward compatibility with legacy systems, and users are strongly discouraged from using it in modern text in favor of the unified character to support proper text processing and interchange.