U+F9CE "硫" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9CE "硫" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a CJK compatibility ideograph that represents a variant form of the standard Chinese character 䴰, specifically encoding a simplified or alternative glyph used in historical or regional contexts. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was designed to preserve roundtrip compatibility with older character encoding standards like CNS 11643 or JIS X 0208, rather than for general modern text use. The character itself is rarely needed in contemporary digital communication, but its inclusion in Unicode ensures that documents and fonts encoded in legacy systems can be faithfully converted without loss of information.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9CE
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	"硫" U+786B CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	硫
HTML Hex Encoding	硫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9CE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9CE
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9ce

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	"硫" U+786B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"硫" U+786B 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+786B
kDefinition	sulfur (element 16, S)
kHangul	유:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6B29
kKorean	YU
kRSUnicode	112.7
kTotalStrokes	11