CJK Compatibility Ideograph F9DF

It is a compatibility form of 履, not a separate modern character. Early forms of 履 appear in inscriptions on oracle bones used for divination and on bronze objects from Western Zhou, an early Chinese dynasty. Its early sense was treading, or setting a foot down. That action later supplied senses for footwear, walking a path, and carrying out a duty or promise.

In Japanese, 履 appears in words for putting on shoes, completing a course, and work history. Korean Hanja (Chinese characters used in Korean) uses it for footwear and treading. It is also the name of the tenth hexagram in the I Ching, a Chinese divination text. This code point belongs to the pronunciation-variant set associated with the Korean standard KS X 1001:1998; it maps to 履 so older Korean data can round-trip.

Why does 履 turn into 履?

Unicode normalization folds 履 into 履. This can happen even if a font initially showed a different outline.

To request a preserved variant, write 履 followed by VS1 (U+FE00), an invisible character that forms Unicode’s standardized variation sequence for this glyph. Support depends on the text system and font; the font determines the outline.

Use 履 in ordinary text

Use 履 only when reproducing a legacy source or when a system specifically requires this code point. For ordinary Chinese, Japanese, or Korean writing, use 履; this compatibility form records an older encoding distinction, not a change in the word’s meaning.