U+F9E1 "李" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9E1 "李" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph representing the Chinese character for "plum" (李), which is very common as a surname in East Asian cultures. This character belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a set of characters encoded primarily to preserve roundtrip conversion fidelity with older legacy character sets like CNS 11643, rather than to provide unique semantic or phonetic usage distinct from its canonical CJK Unified Ideograph counterpart. As a compatibility ideograph, it is generally considered a duplicate of the standard CJK character U+674E "李", and its use in modern text is discouraged in favor of the unified version, except in contexts where the exact representation from a specific legacy encoding must be maintained.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9E1
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	"李" U+674E CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	李
HTML Hex Encoding	李
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9E1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9E1
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9e1

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	"李" U+674E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"李" U+674E 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+674E
kDefinition	plum; judge; surname
kHangul	이:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6C30
kKorean	I
kRSUnicode	75.3
kTotalStrokes	7