U+F9F1 "隣" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F9F1 "隣" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph within the CJK Compatibility block, derived from a variant glyph used in historical or standardized East Asian character sets, such as those from Japanese, Chinese, or Korean computing environments. This specific character represents a unified Han ideograph that corresponds to a known CJK unified ideograph, but it is encoded separately to ensure roundtrip conversion with legacy character sets, such as the Japanese JIS X 0208 standard, where its appearance or usage was distinct. As a compatibility character, it is primarily intended for preserving original text data from older systems rather than for modern, everyday writing, and it may appear visually identical or nearly identical to its unified counterpart depending on the font and rendering environment. Its inclusion in Unicode helps maintain data integrity for documents that originally encoded text using these specific compatibility forms.

General Properties

Code Point U+F9F1
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 "隣" U+96A3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 隣
HTML Hex Encoding 隣
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA7 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF9F1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F9F1
C/C++/Java Escape \uf9f1

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 "隣" U+96A3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "隣" U+96A3 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+96A3
kDefinition neighbor; neighboring; adjacent
kHangul 인:0
kIRG_GSource GU-0F9F1
kIRG_KSource K0-6C64
kKorean IN
kRSUnicode 170.12
kTotalStrokes 15