U+F962 "異" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F962 "異" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a character from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, originally encoded to represent a variant or alternate form of the standard Chinese/Japanese character 異 (yì in Chinese, meaning different, strange, or unusual). It was included primarily for round-trip compatibility with older character encoding standards, such as certain versions of the CNS 11643 or KS X 1001 systems, where it appeared as a distinct glyph. This particular codepoint is considered a compatibility character rather than a unified ideograph, meaning it duplicates an existing character to preserve mapping from legacy character sets, and its use is generally discouraged in modern text in favor of its standard unified counterpart.