U+F9F0 "藺" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9F0 "藺" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specific Han character encoded in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was designed to represent a variant or duplicate form of a standard CJK unified ideograph for historical compatibility with older East Asian character sets, such as those used in legacy Japanese, Chinese, or Korean text systems. This particular ideograph is a compatibility counterpart to the unified character U+7D47, which is a traditional Chinese character meaning "a net" or "a sieve," often referring to a fine mesh or strained net. The compatibility block ensures that documents encoded in older standards, like Apple's KanjiTalk or certain Japanese industrial standards, can be electronically preserved without losing the original glyph shape, even though most modern systems prefer using the unified version.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9F0
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	"藺" U+85FA CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	藺
HTML Hex Encoding	藺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9F0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9F0
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9f0

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	"藺" U+85FA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"藺" U+85FA 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+85FA
kDefinition	rush used in making mats; surname
kHangul	인:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6C61
kKorean	IN
kRSUnicode	140.16
kTotalStrokes	19