U+F9E3 "泥" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9E3 "泥" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility block, specifically encoded for round trip compatibility with older East Asian character set standards like CNS 11643 or the Japanese JIS X 0213. Its corresponding unified CJK character is U+6CE5, which represents the Chinese character "ni" meaning mud or slime. The compatibility variant often preserves a specific glyph shape from a legacy source, such as the CNS stroke reference or a Japanese industrial standard, making it distinct from the unified version in potential visual form but identical in meaning. This character is primarily used when exact fidelity to the original source document's glyph is required, rather than for general text composition.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9E3
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	"泥" U+6CE5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	泥
HTML Hex Encoding	泥
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9E3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9E3
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9e3

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	"泥" U+6CE5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"泥" U+6CE5 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+6CE5
kDefinition	mud, mire; earth, clay; plaster
kHangul	이:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6C32
kKorean	I
kRSUnicode	85.5
kTotalStrokes	8