U+F9B6 "禮" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9B6 "禮" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, representing a variant form of the standard Chinese character 禮 (lǐ), which means "ritual," "propriety," or "courtesy." It was encoded primarily to maintain round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character sets, such as those used in legacy Korean or Japanese systems, where glyph shapes or encoding mappings differed from unified CJK standards. In modern text, this character is generally considered a duplicate of the regular CJK Unified Ideograph for 禮 (U+79AE), and its use is discouraged in favor of the unified form to ensure consistency across platforms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9B6
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	"禮" U+79AE CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	禮
HTML Hex Encoding	禮
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9B6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9B6
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9b6

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	"禮" U+79AE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"禮" U+79AE 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+79AE
kDefinition	social custom; manners; courtesy; rites
kHangul	예:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-675F
kKorean	YEY
kNelson	3259
kRSUnicode	113.13
kTotalStrokes	18