U+F9EF "璘" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9EF "璘" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph found in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically representing a duplicate or variant form of a standard Chinese character from the CJK Unified Ideographs set. Its primary purpose is to maintain round-trip compatibility with older character encoding standards, such as certain East Asian character sets, where this glyph appeared with a slightly different shape or usage. The character itself corresponds to a specific syllable or meaning in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean contexts, but its inclusion in Unicode is driven by historical encoding needs rather than for contemporary writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9EF
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	"璘" U+7498 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	璘
HTML Hex Encoding	璘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9EF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9EF
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9ef

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	"璘" U+7498 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"璘" U+7498 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+7498
kDefinition	luster of jade
kHangul	인:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6C5E
kKorean	IN
kRSUnicode	96.12
kTotalStrokes	16