U+F9DE "吏" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9DE "吏" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, encoded primarily for roundtrip compatibility with legacy East Asian character sets rather than for general modern usage. It represents a variant glyph of the CJK unified ideograph U+6C39, which is the character for "official" or "clerk" in Chinese and Japanese. The F9DE version is a duplication that exists to preserve the exact mapping from older Japanese encoding standards like Shift JIS, ensuring that text converted from those systems can be returned to their original form without loss. In practical use, modern text processing should treat this character as equivalent to its unified counterpart, and it is not recommended for new content creation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9DE
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	"吏" U+540F CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	吏
HTML Hex Encoding	吏
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9DE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9DE
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9de

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	"吏" U+540F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"吏" U+540F 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+540F
kDefinition	government official, magistrate
kHangul	이:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6C27
kKorean	I
kRSUnicode	30.3
kTotalStrokes	6