U+F9B5 "例" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9B5 "例" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) block, representing a variant form of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+4F8B, which means "example" or "case." This character was encoded specifically to preserve the exact appearance of the character as it existed in legacy East Asian character sets or texts, such as those used in older Korean or Japanese encoding standards, where its glyph shape differs slightly from the unified modern form. As a compatibility character, it is not recommended for general use in modern text, but it is retained for round-trip conversion fidelity with older systems, ensuring that documents originally encoded with this specific variant can be accurately represented in Unicode without loss of information.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9B5
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	"例" U+4F8B CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	例
HTML Hex Encoding	例
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9B5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9B5
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9b5

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	"例" U+4F8B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"例" U+4F8B 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+4F8B
kDefinition	precedent, example; regulation
kHangul	예:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6753
kKorean	YEY
kRSUnicode	9.6
kTotalStrokes	8