U+F9B8 "隸" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F9B8 "隸" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode to represent characters that have been unified with other existing CJK characters in the standard, but which were originally encoded separately in earlier East Asian character sets, such as the Korean KPS 9566 standard. Specifically, this glyph is a variant form of the character "隸" (U+96B8), which means "attached to" or "subordinate" and historically refers to the clerical script style of Chinese calligraphy. Its purpose in Unicode is to preserve the distinct visual identity of this character for round-trip conversion with legacy encoding systems, ensuring that documents using it can be accurately mapped back to their original encoding without loss of information.

General Properties

Code Point U+F9B8
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 "隸" U+96B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 隸
HTML Hex Encoding 隸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA6 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF9B8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F9B8
C/C++/Java Escape \uf9b8

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 "隸" U+96B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "隸" U+96B8 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+96B8
kDefinition be subservient to; servant
kHangul 예:X
kIRG_KSource KU-0F9B8
kKorean YEY
kRSUnicode 171.9
kTotalStrokes 17