U+F9C8 "杻" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F9C8 "杻" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility block, specifically representing a variant form of a standard Chinese character used primarily in historical or legacy text encoding contexts, such as pre-Unicode character sets like CNS 11643 or IBM's extended encoding. This character, which visually resembles the ideograph for "利" (meaning benefit or profit) with a modified radical or stroke composition, was included in Unicode to ensure round-trip conversion fidelity with older East Asian character standards, rather than representing a distinct modern usage. Its compatibility nature means it is typically not recommended for new content creation, as it duplicates a unified CJK character found elsewhere in the Unicode standard under a different code point.

General Properties

Code Point U+F9C8
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 "杻" U+677B CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 杻
HTML Hex Encoding 杻
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA7 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF9C8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F9C8
C/C++/Java Escape \uf9c8

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 "杻" U+677B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "杻" U+677B 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+677B
kDefinition Ligustrum sinense, Chinese privet
kHangul 유:0
kIRG_KSource K0-6A74
kKorean YU
kRSUnicode 75.4
kTotalStrokes 8