U+F9BB "僚" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9BB "僚" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, representing a variant or duplicate form of a standard Chinese character primarily used in historical or legacy text encodings. This particular glyph corresponds to the character "僚" which is a compatibility equivalent of the standard CJK unified ideograph U+6599 typically meaning "to estimate" or "materials" in Chinese and Japanese contexts. It was included in Unicode to facilitate round-trip conversion with older standards like CNS 11643 or IBM's extended character sets, preserving the original appearance of texts where this specific glyph was used. Modern usage is discouraged in favor of its unified counterpart, but it remains in the standard for archival and interoperability purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9BB
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	"僚" U+50DA CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	僚
HTML Hex Encoding	僚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9BB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9BB
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9bb

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	"僚" U+50DA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"僚" U+50DA 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+50DA
kDefinition	officials; bureaucracy
kHangul	요:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6868
kKorean	YO
kRSUnicode	9.12
kTotalStrokes	14