U+F9A1 "說" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9A1 "說" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) block, specifically part of the Compatibility Ideographs range used to encode characters that originated from legacy East Asian character sets for round-trip conversion purposes. It represents a variant glyph of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+8AAA "說" which means "to speak" or "to say" in Chinese and Japanese. Due to its compatibility nature, this character is not recommended for general use in modern text, as it is essentially a duplicate of a unified character and its inclusion serves primarily historical or document exchange contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9A1
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	"說" U+8AAA CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	說
HTML Hex Encoding	說
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9A1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9A1
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9a1

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	"說" U+8AAA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"說" U+8AAA 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+8AAA
kDefinition	speak, say, talk; scold, upbraid
kHangul	열:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6672
kKorean	YEL
kRSUnicode	149.7
kTotalStrokes	14