U+F9F9 "粒" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9F9 "粒" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a specialized glyph used to represent a Chinese character originally derived from a Duplicate or variant form found in legacy East Asian character sets, specifically from the CNS 11643 standard. It is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was encoded primarily to ensure round trip compatibility with older text encodings, rather than for general modern usage. This character corresponds to the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+7C92, which means "grain" or "pellet," but U+F9F9 is considered a duplicate or compatibility variant and is not recommended for use in new text, as it can cause interoperability issues.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9F9
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	"粒" U+7C92 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	粒
HTML Hex Encoding	粒
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9F9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9F9
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9f9

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	"粒" U+7C92 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"粒" U+7C92 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+7C92
kDefinition	grain; small particle
kHangul	입:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6D23
kKorean	IP
kRSUnicode	119.5
kTotalStrokes	11