U+F9ED "吝" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9ED "吝" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph included in Unicode primarily to ensure round-trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as those used in Japan. This character represents a specific variant or duplicate form of a common Chinese or Japanese character, often corresponding to a simplified or alternate glyph shape that was encoded separately for historical or legacy reasons. In modern Unicode usage, it is generally unnecessary for new text, as its meaning and usage are identical to its standard CJK Unified Ideograph counterpart, and it is typically retained only to support documents and systems that rely on older encoding schemes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9ED
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	"吝" U+541D CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	吝
HTML Hex Encoding	吝
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9ED
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9ED
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9ed

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	"吝" U+541D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"吝" U+541D 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+541D
kDefinition	stingy, miserly, parsimonious
kHangul	인:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6C55
kKorean	IN
kRSUnicode	30.4
kTotalStrokes	7