U+F9F5 "淋" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9F5 "淋" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that represents a variant or duplicate form of a standard CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) character, specifically a mapping to the character "淋" (U+6DCB), which means "to pour," "drench," or "shower." It belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block (U+F900 to U+FAFF) in Unicode, a range primarily included for roundtrip compatibility with older character encoding standards, such as those used in legacy systems like the IBM 32. Interestingly, this particular ideograph is considered a duplicate of U+6DCB, meaning it encodes the same meaning and form but in a separate code point for historical preservation. Despite its visual appearance, U+F9F5 is not recommended for general text use; Unicode advises using the standard CJK Unified Ideograph instead to ensure consistency and avoid encoding redundancy.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9F5
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	"淋" U+6DCB CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	淋
HTML Hex Encoding	淋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9F5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9F5
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9f5

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	"淋" U+6DCB CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"淋" U+6DCB 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+6DCB
kDefinition	drip, soak, drench; perfectly
kHangul	임:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6C78
kKorean	IM
kRSUnicode	85.8
kTotalStrokes	11