U+F9B7 "醴" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9B7 "醴" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically representing a variant form of the character that corresponds to the standard CJK Unified Ideograph for the Chinese/Japanese/Korean character meaning "to winnow" or "to separate the grain from the chaff," which is typically encoded as U+7B69 (篩). This character is part of a set of compatibility ideographs that were originally included in Unicode to maintain roundtrip compatibility with older encoding standards, such as IBM's or CNS 11643, rather than representing a distinct new meaning or usage. Its use is generally discouraged in modern text, as Unicode prefers the unified standard character for semantic clarity and interoperability.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9B7
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	"醴" U+91B4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	醴
HTML Hex Encoding	醴
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9B7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9B7
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9b7

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	"醴" U+91B4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"醴" U+91B4 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+91B4
kDefinition	sweet wine; sweet spring
kHangul	예:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6764
kKorean	YEY
kRSUnicode	164.13
kTotalStrokes	20