U+F9D8 "律" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9D8 "律" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically encoding a form of the Chinese character "律" (lǜ), which means law, rule, or regulation. This character is a compatibility ideograph, designed to preserve a unique, pre-existing glyph shape from older character set standards or vendor-specific fonts, distinct from its unified CJK counterpart. Its purpose is to maintain roundtrip conversion fidelity with legacy systems, though it is generally not recommended for new text where the standard unified ideograph U+5F8B "律" suffices.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9D8
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	"律" U+5F8B CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	律
HTML Hex Encoding	律
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9D8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9D8
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9d8

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	"律" U+5F8B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"律" U+5F8B 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+5F8B
kDefinition	statute, principle, regulation
kHangul	율:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6B4F
kKorean	YUL
kRSUnicode	60.6
kTotalStrokes	9