U+F9B0 "聆" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9B0 "聆" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was created to encode characters that are unified with other CJK characters in the main Unicode blocks but are included here to preserve roundtrip compatibility with older legacy character set standards, such as CNS 11643. This specific glyph represents a variant of the standard CJK character for the Chinese word "jian" or "lian" which can mean "to practice" or "to train," but its exact semantic usage varies across different historical contexts and regional scripts, including Chinese and Japanese. Its inclusion in Unicode is primarily for data interchange rather than for new text creation, as modern systems generally use the unified CJK Unified Ideographs block for the same character.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9B0
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	"聆" U+8046 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	聆
HTML Hex Encoding	聆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9B0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9B0
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9b0

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	"聆" U+8046 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"聆" U+8046 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+8046
kDefinition	listen, hear
kHangul	영:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6747
kKorean	YENG
kRSUnicode	128.5
kTotalStrokes	11