U+F996 "練" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F996 "練" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph included in the Unicode standard for round trip compatibility with older East Asian encoding standards, such as CNS 11643, where it corresponds to the ideograph for the Korean reading "lyeon" or the Chinese reading "lian," meaning "to practice" or "to train." It is visually identical to the regular CJK Unified Ideograph U+B828 (连 or 練) but occupies a specific code point in the Compatibility Ideographs block to preserve text fidelity when converting from legacy character sets. Its use is generally discouraged in modern text, as it is intended solely for mapping purposes rather than new document creation.