U+F9B3 "靈" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9B3 "靈" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a duplicate of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+9748 "靈", which represents the Chinese character for "spirit", "soul", or "divine". This compatibility ideograph originates from the CNS 11643 standard used in Taiwan, where it was encoded as a separate character due to a different stroke order or visual variant. In Unicode, it is classified under the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, meant to preserve round-trip conversion compatibility with older character sets, and its use is generally discouraged in favor of the unified form.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9B3
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	"靈" U+9748 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	靈
HTML Hex Encoding	靈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9B3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9B3
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9b3

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	"靈" U+9748 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"靈" U+9748 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+9748
kDefinition	spirit, soul; spiritual world
kHangul	영:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-674F
kKorean	YENG
kRSUnicode	173.16
kTotalStrokes	24