U+F9FE "茶" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9FE "茶" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that represents a variant form of a common Chinese character, typically associated with the meaning "tea" or related concepts, which is most often encoded as the standard CJK Unified Ideograph U+8336. This character falls within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a set of characters included in Unicode primarily to preserve the roundtrip conversion integrity with older character set standards like CNS 11643. In modern text, it is generally not recommended for use because its appearance and meaning are already covered by the unified ideograph, and its inclusion serves mainly for historical or legacy data interchange purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9FE
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	"茶" U+8336 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	茶
HTML Hex Encoding	茶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9FE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9FE
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9fe

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	"茶" U+8336 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"茶" U+8336 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+8336
kDefinition	tea
kHangul	차:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-7331
kKorean	CHA
kRSUnicode	140.6
kTotalStrokes	9