U+F9CB "溜" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9CB "溜" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specialized Han character classified under the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was designed to preserve roundtrip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards such as CNS 11643. This specific ideograph represents a variant or duplicate form of a standard CJK Unified Ideograph, often mapping to a similar character in the main CJK Unified Ideographs block, though its exact usage and meaning may be obscure due to its primary role in legacy data conversion rather than modern typography. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that documents encoded in older systems can be accurately represented without loss, even though the character is rarely used in contemporary writing or computing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9CB
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	"溜" U+6E9C CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	溜
HTML Hex Encoding	溜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9CB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9CB
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9cb

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	"溜" U+6E9C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"溜" U+6E9C 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+6E9C
kDefinition	slide, glide, slip; slippery
kHangul	유:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6A7E
kKorean	YU
kRSUnicode	85.10
kTotalStrokes	13