U+F9E4 "理" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F9E4 "理" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a set of characters encoded primarily for roundtrip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as those used in early Japanese, Korean, and Chinese computing systems. This particular ideograph is a compatibility variant of the standard CJK Unified Ideograph for the Chinese character "理" (pronounced lǐ in Mandarin), which means principle, logic, or to manage. It was originally included to preserve the exact form of the character as it appeared in legacy character sets, ensuring that text converted from those older systems would display correctly without losing its original glyphic identity. While it visually represents the same concept as its unified counterpart, its primary use is for historical and data exchange purposes rather than for modern text composition.

General Properties

Code Point U+F9E4
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 "理" U+7406 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 理
HTML Hex Encoding 理
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA7 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF9E4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F9E4
C/C++/Java Escape \uf9e4

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 "理" U+7406 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "理" U+7406 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+7406
kDefinition reason, logic; manage
kHangul 이:0
kIRG_KSource K0-6C35
kKorean I
kRSUnicode 96.7
kTotalStrokes 11