U+F9C9 "柳" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9C9 "柳" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, and it represents a variant form of the Chinese character for "willow" or "柳" (liǔ). This specific character was included in Unicode primarily to maintain roundtrip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as those used in Japanese or Korean legacy systems, rather than for modern, active use. In practice, it is largely considered a duplicate of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+67F3 (柳) and is not recommended for use in contemporary text, as the unified ideograph is the preferred representation. Its inclusion helps preserve the fidelity of historical digital documents without altering their original encoded forms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9C9
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	"柳" U+67F3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	柳
HTML Hex Encoding	柳
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9C9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9C9
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9c9

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	"柳" U+67F3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"柳" U+67F3 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+67F3
kDefinition	willow tree; pleasure
kHangul	유:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6A77
kKorean	YU
kRSUnicode	75.5
kTotalStrokes	9