U+F90B "喇" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F90B "喇" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph originally encoded for roundtrip compatibility with older East Asian character set standards, such as CNS 11643, where it represents a variant form of a standard CJK unified ideograph, specifically corresponding to U+558A "喊" which means "to shout" or "to call." This character falls within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, and its primary purpose is to preserve the exact glyph shape from legacy encodings rather than to introduce new linguistic meaning, as modern Unicode usage typically prefers the unified version for text processing and interchange.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F90B
Version Added	1.1
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	"喇" U+5587 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	喇
HTML Hex Encoding	喇
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA4 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF90B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F90B
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf90b

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	"喇" U+5587 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"喇" U+5587 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+5587
kDefinition	horn, bugle; lama; final particle
kHangul	나:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5154
kKorean	NA
kRSUnicode	30.9
kTotalStrokes	12