U+FA9B "瀞" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA9B "瀞" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph included in the Unicode standard to represent a variant or simplified form of a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) character, specifically a variant of the character often associated with the Chinese character for "iron" or a related metal, though its exact meaning can depend on context and script. It falls within the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was designed to preserve round-trip compatibility with older character encoding standards rather than encode new or generally used characters. As a result, this character is primarily intended for use in legacy text conversion and is not recommended for modern document creation, where the standard CJK Unified Ideograph for the same meaning should be used instead.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA9B
Version Added	4.1
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	"瀞" U+701E CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	瀞
HTML Hex Encoding	瀞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAA 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA9B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA9B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa9b

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	"瀞" U+701E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"瀞" U+701E 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+701E
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-53FA
kRSUnicode	85.16
kTotalStrokes	19