U+F9B9 "惡" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9B9 "惡" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode primarily to support round trip conversion with older pre Unicode standards such as CNS 11643 or JIS X 0213. This specific character is a variant or alternate form of the CJK Unified Ideograph U+60E1 "悪" or "恶", which means "evil", "bad", or "wrong". Unlike standard CJK unified ideographs, compatibility ideographs like U+F9B9 are not typically recommended for use in modern text, as they can cause confusion or duplication with their unified equivalents. They are preserved in the standard to ensure that legacy encoded documents can be mapped accurately without loss of information.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9B9
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	"惡" U+60E1 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	惡
HTML Hex Encoding	惡
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9B9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9B9
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9b9

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	"惡" U+60E1 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"惡" U+60E1 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+60E1
kDefinition	evil, wicked, bad, foul
kHangul	오:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6777
kKorean	O
kRSUnicode	61.8
kTotalStrokes	12