U+F9FB "炙" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9FB "炙" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph originating from a subset of CJK Unified Ideographs, specifically encoded for roundtrip compatibility with older East Asian character standards like those used in Japanese or Korean legacy systems. This particular character corresponds to the CJK unified character U+8C7B "豻" although compatibility forms may have subtle visual differences, such as alternate glyph shapes or stroke orders, depending on the source standard. Its primary purpose is to allow faithful data interchange and text rendering when converting from deprecated encoding schemes into modern Unicode, without loss of the original character representation. As a compatibility ideograph, it is not recommended for use in authoring new text but remains essential for preserving historical documents and legacy data.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9FB
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	"炙" U+7099 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	炙
HTML Hex Encoding	炙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9FB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9FB
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9fb

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	"炙" U+7099 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"炙" U+7099 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+7099
kDefinition	roast, broil; toast; cauterize
kHangul	적:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6E5B
kKorean	CEK
kRSUnicode	86.4
kTotalStrokes	8