U+F9C1 "療" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9C1 "療" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph used in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) block, specifically representing a variant form of the standard character for "treatment" or "cure" (typically associated with the character "療"). It was included in Unicode primarily to preserve roundtrip compatibility with older character encoding standards, such as those found in Japanese Shift JIS or Korean KS C 5601, where this specific glyph differs in shape from its unified counterpart. As a compatibility character, it is not recommended for new text creation, as modern systems favor the unified CJK ideograph U+7642 "療," but it ensures that legacy documents and digital texts maintain their original visual appearance when converted to Unicode.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9C1
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	"療" U+7642 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	療
HTML Hex Encoding	療
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9C1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9C1
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9c1

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	"療" U+7642 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"療" U+7642 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+7642
kDefinition	be healed, cured, recover
kHangul	요:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-687E
kKorean	YO
kRSUnicode	104.12
kTotalStrokes	17