U+F9DD "利" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9DD "利" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) block, specifically part of a set of characters encoded for round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as those used in legacy Japanese and Korean systems. This character represents a variant or duplicate of the standard CJK unified ideograph U+5229 "利", which means "profit" or "advantage" in various East Asian languages, but its inclusion in Unicode is primarily to preserve the exact mapping of source standards rather than to convey a unique linguistic meaning. As a compatibility character, its use is generally discouraged in favor of the unified form to maintain modern text interchange efficiency and consistency across systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9DD
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	"利" U+5229 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	利
HTML Hex Encoding	利
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9DD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9DD
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9dd

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	"利" U+5229 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"利" U+5229 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+5229
kDefinition	gains, advantage, profit, merit
kHangul	이:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6C26
kKorean	I
kNelson	3264
kRSUnicode	18.5
kTotalStrokes	7