U+F9F6 "臨" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9F6 "臨" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that represents a variant of the standard Chinese character 臨, which means "to face," "to approach," or "to arrive." This specific code point is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a collection of characters encoded primarily for roundtrip conversion with older East Asian character sets, such as those used in pre-Unicode systems like the Japanese Ku-Ten or Adobe-Japan1 standards. In modern usage, U+F9F6 is considered a duplicate of its unified counterpart in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, and its use is generally discouraged in favor of the standard character to ensure consistent text processing and interoperability across platforms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9F6
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	"臨" U+81E8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	臨
HTML Hex Encoding	臨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9F6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9F6
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9f6

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	"臨" U+81E8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"臨" U+81E8 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+81E8
kDefinition	draw near, approach; descend
kHangul	임:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6C7A
kKorean	IM
kRSUnicode	131.11
kTotalStrokes	17