U+F9F8 "笠" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9F8 "笠" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a collection of characters encoded primarily for round trip compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, such as certain Japanese and Korean industrial standards. This specific ideograph corresponds to a variant of the CJK Unified Ideograph for the character "笠" (U+7B20), which means "bamboo hat" or "conical hat" in Chinese and Japanese, and is used in contexts where the original, non unified form is needed to ensure accurate text exchange. Its inclusion in Unicode allows legacy documents and systems that relied on these distinct glyphs to display and process text correctly without loss of information.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9F8
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	"笠" U+7B20 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	笠
HTML Hex Encoding	笠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9F8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9F8
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9f8

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	"笠" U+7B20 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"笠" U+7B20 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+7B20
kDefinition	bamboo hat; bamboo covering
kHangul	입:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6D22
kKorean	IP
kRSUnicode	118.5
kTotalStrokes	11