U+F9EE "燐" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9EE "燐" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph used in the Unicode standard to represent a specific Chinese character that was originally encoded as a variant or simplified form for compatibility with older East Asian character sets, such as those used in Japan, Korea, or Taiwan. This character is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which preserves the distinct shape and usage of characters from legacy encoding systems to ensure roundtrip conversion without loss of information. Its specific glyph may resemble a standard CJK unified ideograph but is assigned a separate code point to maintain backward compatibility, and it is generally not recommended for new text encoding where the unified version could be used instead.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9EE
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	"燐" U+71D0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	燐
HTML Hex Encoding	燐
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9EE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9EE
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9ee

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	"燐" U+71D0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"燐" U+71D0 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+71D0
kDefinition	phosphorus (element 15, P)
kHangul	인:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6C5D
kKorean	IN
kRSUnicode	86.12
kTotalStrokes	16