U+F9B1 "鈴" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9B1 "鈴" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph included in the Unicode standard for round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as the Korean KS X 1001 standard. While it visually resembles the CJK Unified Ideograph for the character often meaning "bell" or "jar" in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean usage, it is coded in the Compatibility Ideographs block to preserve a specific glyph variant that existed in those legacy encodings. In modern text processing, it is typically considered a duplicate of the standard unified ideograph U+9130, and its use is discouraged in favor of the unified version, though it may appear in historical or specialized documents.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9B1
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	"鈴" U+9234 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	鈴
HTML Hex Encoding	鈴
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9B1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9B1
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9b1

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	"鈴" U+9234 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"鈴" U+9234 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+9234
kDefinition	bell
kHangul	영:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-674B
kKorean	YENG
kRSUnicode	167.5
kTotalStrokes	13