U+F9E3 "泥" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9E3 "泥" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility block, specifically encoded for round trip compatibility with older East Asian character set standards like CNS 11643 or the Japanese JIS X 0213. Its corresponding unified CJK character is U+6CE5, which represents the Chinese character "ni" meaning mud or slime. The compatibility variant often preserves a specific glyph shape from a legacy source, such as the CNS stroke reference or a Japanese industrial standard, making it distinct from the unified version in potential visual form but identical in meaning. This character is primarily used when exact fidelity to the original source document's glyph is required, rather than for general text composition.