U+F9F2 "鱗" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9F2 "鱗" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph intended to represent the same meaning and usage as the standard CJK unified ideograph U+8F9F for the character "辟" (pronounced pì or bì in Chinese, meaning "to open up" or "to dispel"), but it originates from a source standard or legacy encoding that required a distinct code point for round-trip conversion compatibility. This character belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was encoded to preserve the exact mappings from older character sets like CNS 11643 or various industry standards, and it is not recommended for general text interchange because it duplicates an existing unified character. In modern Unicode usage, the standard form U+8F9F should be preferred over this compatibility variant.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9F2
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	"鱗" U+9C57 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	鱗
HTML Hex Encoding	鱗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9F2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9F2
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9f2

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	"鱗" U+9C57 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"鱗" U+9C57 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+9C57
kDefinition	fish scales
kHangul	인:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6C67
kKorean	IN
kRSUnicode	195.12
kTotalStrokes	23