U+F9F4 "林" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9F4 "林" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility block, originally encoded to represent a variant or simplified form of the common Chinese character "林" (meaning forest or grove), which is itself composed of two trees. It was included in Unicode to preserve the identity of characters from legacy East Asian character sets, particularly those used in preexisting standards like the Japanese JIS X 0208 or Korean KS X 1001, where it appears as a distinct glyph. In modern usage, this character is considered a compatibility variant and is generally not recommended for new text unless precise roundtrip conversion with older systems is required, as it may be displayed differently across fonts and platforms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9F4
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	"林" U+6797 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	林
HTML Hex Encoding	林
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9F4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9F4
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9f4

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	"林" U+6797 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"林" U+6797 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+6797
kDefinition	forest, grove; surname
kHangul	임:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6C77
kKorean	IM
kRSUnicode	75.4
kTotalStrokes	8