U+F9E2 "梨" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9E2 "梨" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility block, encoded to represent a variant form of the standard Chinese character for “pear” (梨). It was originally defined for roundtrip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as certain versions of CNS 11643 or corporate character sets, where identical glyphs were assigned to distinct code points. Despite its visual identity with the common kanji or hanzi for pear, its primary use today is in historical data conversion and legacy text processing, as it is not intended for new text but ensures that documents from earlier systems retain their intended appearance when mapped to Unicode.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9E2
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	"梨" U+68A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	梨
HTML Hex Encoding	梨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9E2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9E2
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9e2

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	"梨" U+68A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"梨" U+68A8 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+68A8
kDefinition	pear; opera; cut, slash
kHangul	이:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6C31
kKorean	I
kRSUnicode	75.7
kTotalStrokes	11