U+F9A9 "囹" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9A9 "囹" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a coded representation of a Chinese character used primarily in East Asian writing systems, though it is designated as a compatibility ideograph. This means it was originally included in Unicode to preserve the visual form of a character found in legacy character sets or standard texts, rather than to represent a unique semantic unit distinct from the unified CJK ideographs. The "囹" character itself corresponds to a specific glyph that may appear in older or specialized documents, such as historical or dictionary contexts, but its usage is generally redundant with a standard unified CJK character, and it is not commonly encountered in modern digital text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9A9
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	"囹" U+56F9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	囹
HTML Hex Encoding	囹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9A9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9A9
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9a9

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	"囹" U+56F9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"囹" U+56F9 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+56F9
kDefinition	prison, enclosure
kHangul	영:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-672A
kKorean	YENG
kRSUnicode	31.5
kTotalStrokes	8