U+F9C6 "阮" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9C6 "阮" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was included in Unicode to preserve the exact character shapes used in older East Asian character set standards, such as those from China, Japan, and Korea. This specific character corresponds to a variant of the standard CJK unified ideograph for the Chinese character meaning "a kind of weed" or "to castrate a ram," but it is encoded separately for backward compatibility and round trip conversion with legacy systems. As a compatibility character, its primary use is in historical data or specialized text processing, and modern applications typically prefer its unified counterpart U+834B for general writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9C6
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	"阮" U+962E CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	阮
HTML Hex Encoding	阮
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9C6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9C6
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9c6

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	"阮" U+962E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"阮" U+962E 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+962E
kDefinition	ancient musical instrument; surname
kHangul	원:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6A41
kKorean	WEN
kRSUnicode	170.4
kTotalStrokes	7